Question / Help For some reason, an Image Slideshow of 40MB of gifs uses over 5GB of RAM

[YarharALC]

I was so confused, I never had these issues with OBS before. I'll skip the poetry, but I found when adding an image slideshow directory of my 40MB of gifs, OBS immediately makes the jump from 95,316K in task manager to 5,800,000ish. How is this even possible? I need to find an alternative solution until/unless this can be solved.

My guess is that it's somehow loading every single frame of every single gif. For transparency, here's the giffytime folder

 

[R1CH]

Large animated GIFs take up considerable amounts of memory, as each frame must be decoded to RGBA (width * height * 4 * frames). Decoding them on demand causes frame skips as GIF decoding is a slow process, so OBS caches them in RAM instead.

Large GIFs are often better as actual videos in a playlist.

 

[YarharALC]

Ah, that's a huge bummer. Fits my use case perfect. Loop a clip for x minutes, have a y minute transition to a random new clip. I guess I'll fire up Sony Vegas and make something like that with them. Thanks, anyways.