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XAnim  is a program that can display animations of various
formats on systems running X11.  XAnim currently  supports
the following animation types:

       +  FLI animations.
       +  FLC animations.
       +  IFF  animations. The following features are sup-
          ported:
            -> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small
             L).
            -> Color cycling during single images and
             anims.
            -> Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and
             HAM8.
       +  GIF87a and GIF89a files.
            -> single and multiple images supported.
            -> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
       +  GIF89a animation extension support.
       +  a  kludgy  text file listing gifs and what order
          to show them in.
       +  DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and partial 3.
       +  Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. TEMP
          DISABLED
       +  Amiga   MovieSetter  animations(For  those  Eric
          Schwartz fans).
       +  Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
       +  AVI animations. Currently supported are
            -> IBM Ultimotion     (ULTI) depth 16.
            -> JPEG               (JPEG) depth 24.
                         images.
       +  MPEG  animations.  Currently  only Type I Frames
          are displayed. Type B and Type P frames are cur-
          rently  ignored,  but  will  be  added in future
          revs.
       +  WAV audio files may have their  sound  added  to
          any  animation  type  that  doesn't already have
          audio, by specifying the  .wav  file  after  the
          animation  file  on  the command line. Currently
          only the PCM audio codec is supported.
       +  any combination of the above on the same command
          line.

XAnim also provides various options that allow the user to
alter colormaps, playback speeds, looping  modes  and  can
provide on-the-fly scaling of animations with the mouse.

WWW: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html