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Skipping frames for Animated WebP

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
objective-c
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start in SDImageWebPCoder.m around line 264, where animated WebP frames are decoded and durations are collected. Determine how an opt-in frame-skipping option should be exposed and preserved across supported Apple platforms, then verify the resulting frame count and animation timing with an animated WebP fixture.

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Description

enhancement

It would be good to have an option to skip frames for animated webP.
If I have a thumbnail trying to render an animated wepb image with 120 frames it could be good to render only 30 frames, to preserve speed and memory.
Maybe not the first 30 frames but skipping frames in a loop: the animation will not be very smooth obviously.

A simple, not nice looking solution to skip half of the frames:
SDImageWebPCoder.m
line 264
Adding a skipper in the loop and duplicating the duration

    int skipper = 0;
    do {
        skipper++;
        if ((skipper %2) == 0) {
            continue;
        }
            
        @autoreleasepool {
            CGImageRef imageRef = [self sd_drawnWebpImageWithCanvas:canvas iterator:iter colorSpace:colorSpace scaledSize:scaledSize];
            if (!imageRef) {
                continue;
            }

#if SD_UIKIT || SD_WATCH
            UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithCGImage:imageRef scale:scale orientation:UIImageOrientationUp];
#else
            UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithCGImage:imageRef scale:scale orientation:kCGImagePropertyOrientationUp];
#endif
            CGImageRelease(imageRef);
            
            NSTimeInterval duration = [self sd_frameDurationWithIterator:iter];
            SDImageFrame *frame = [SDImageFrame frameWithImage:image duration:(duration*2)];
            [frames addObject:frame];
        }
        
    } while (WebPDemuxNextFrame(&iter));
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