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ADGamer
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I need to know this..
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Preston C
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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 10:38 Edited at: 13th Feb 2005 10:38
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GIF is an image file, it's not meant to have sound. Period.

Now, you could always use a program such as Windows Movie Maker to make an avi or mpg. Those are movie formats, which are generally moving pictures like gifs, except with sound

Or you could use swf.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 10:41
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*squawk*

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 10:59
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@Travis, i would have to say, that was the biggest piece of spam ever

you can probibly have your website (if you're using a website) play backgound music


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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 11:09
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Quote: " that was the biggest piece of spam ever"

It was a fairly small piece of spam.

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2005 12:59
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His GIF made sound!!

FANTASTIC!


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I've seen some programs that added sound to a GIF, but..THEY WERE NOT FREE!!
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Posted: 14th Feb 2005 05:24
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It is not possible...stop there

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Posted: 14th Feb 2005 05:53 Edited at: 14th Feb 2005 05:54
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it's possible....
since no one beileves me, i'll have proof that I can add sound to a GIF.. I think..
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Posted: 14th Feb 2005 05:55 Edited at: 14th Feb 2005 05:55
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Prove it. Got a link to any of them?
[EDIT] The programs, I mean.

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Monkey Shine, the .gif format was never meant to have sound. At all. Ever. Period. Dot Dot Dot. You're probably thinking about a program that takes a .gif, turns it into a .swf (Shockwave Flash File), and adds a sound to it. .swf supports sound. .gif doesn't. Get it through your thick head.

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He just wants to be a moron and not listen to other people.

*beep*

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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Because the .gif format doesn't support sounds. All it is is a bunch of images cycled through with a specified delay in milliseconds between each frame. It does not and can never support sound.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2005 23:06 Edited at: 14th Feb 2005 23:13
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Go Coder_David!!

I have frames that were not a gif file, put them togther and added sound! it's possible...nobody ever thought about it until today.

Quote: "He just wants to be a moron and not listen to other people.

*beep*"


dude... you never know! I think it's possible..just because you don't beleive it, It doesn't mean it's not true!

and to that one guy.. I don't have proof yet..

also, It may never had supported sound before, but programs today
are pretty advanced...No one has really looked over the situation..
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Posted: 14th Feb 2005 23:57
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GIF does NOT support sound..
And now stop messing up the forum

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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 00:13 Edited at: 15th Feb 2005 00:17
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Why would anyone bother modifying a GIF to support sound? Gifs are crap anyway, they certainly cannot support sound.

Edit - GIF: Graphics Interchange Format, where is the sound in that

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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 01:36 Edited at: 15th Feb 2005 01:36
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if there were a "stupidest topic of the year" award, this one would take the cake

a gif does not use sound, if there's a gif that does use sound, it is in fact not a gif.

there are many sound+video formats out there, gif ain't one of em


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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 01:37
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GIF's cannot, do not and will not include sound, ever for any reason.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 01:43
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GIFs support sound.


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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 02:41 Edited at: 15th Feb 2005 02:42
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Maybe someone could invent a program to add sound to a GIF..
or maybe someone already did!

I didn't put this up so everyone could say "NO"
I put this up so someone could tell me how!

It's not THAT impossible, so you don't need to tell me I can't do it..


I have reasons to have a GIF with sound, too!
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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 02:48
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You asked for this...

*grabs Monkey shine by the collar*

You (SLAP!) can't (SLAP!) add (SLAP!) sound (SLAP!) to (SLAP!) a (SLAP!) GIF! (BIG SLAP!)

Get it into your head, will you?

BTW, GIFs are designed to save disk space, aren't they?

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I don't think so, I don't think they have much (or any) compression. I should test this, though.

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the .gif format is static u can not jsut add sound to a format cause then u edited the format and it isnt a .gif anymore that is your .gif wotn work in any standard image viewer it will onyl work in your own and it also wont work wiht the dbpro load animation u will have to handcode it all

proof:
read this http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt

copy it into notepad(using ctrl-a) and do a search for sound and it onyl comes up with one hting and that is that it will sound a CONSTANT(nto changabel sound) bell signallign that the gif file expects input from the user which i didnt even know a gif file could do so i may have misread btu anyway

so now everyone shut up about it
and what is even more retard than the author of this topic is all the people who keeps telling him(including me but im rying to end it)

also it woudl eb nice if a mod locked this

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Posted: 15th Feb 2005 03:37 Edited at: 15th Feb 2005 03:40
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@ ionstream:

I think they were, because I heard GIF use dithering and as a result, the image is of a much lower quality. Which is why they never should be used for digital photos or stuff like that.

[EDIT] No offence, but check your spelling before you post, Shadows.

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Quote: " Maybe someone could invent a program to add sound to a GIF..
or maybe someone already did! "


Hahaha! I'm not even going to respond. That's like saying somebody should make JPGs have sound.


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guys..Just leave If you are not going to help..

Shadows of Emptiness, I've seen things just like that, accept, they
said you can.. If you guys don't want to beleive it, THEN DON'T!

I made this thread because I knew it was possible somehow...
I said: "HOW do you add sound to a GIF..
Not: CAN you add sound to a GIF..
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Lock the thread already!

PLEASE!



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@Monkey Shine - You can't add sound to a GIF file. Shadows of Emptiness posted the specs for the GIF format:

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt

Search for the word 'sound'. If you add sound to an existing format, then it's NOT the same format anymore. Therefore, for the 39th time, you can't add sound to a GIF file.

I'm locking this because there's no point to it anymore as it's just stubbornness from both sides.


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