Awesome

SimpleGIF is a super-simple library to read GIF files and each frame of their animation.

• You can read the decompressed bitmap without converting it to a pixel format
• You can get the colors of each frame's palette, so you can draw the decompressed bitmap yourself if you wish
• You can use this library to convert the decompressed bitmap to a regular bitmap of a specific pixel format, so you don't need to do any drawing yourself
• You can browse the GIF contents through objects without doing any drawing

This library uses .NET 5.0.

SimpleGIF uses:

• EndianBinaryIO

This project is made possible by XamlAnimatedGif and What's in a GIF. XamlAnimatedGif is the only C# library that I found that reliably reads GIF files, but I was not using XAML for my application, so I ported over the GIF-specific code here. XamlAnimatedGif decodes the GIFs on the fly, which I also did not want (due to high CPU usage with just a few GIFs), so this library lets you get each/every frame already decoded as you wish.