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I've been searching for days but have yet to find an application that can play scaled up animated gifs without getting choppy. The basic requirements are:
Any favorite stripped-down image viewers out there?
Some of the tools in the ImageMagick suite (apt-get install imagemagick) will help. The animate command will display animated .gifs:
animate myimg.gif
The window is by default borderless (you do have to be in an X GUI). You can resize:
animate -resize 1920x1080 myimg.gif
Notice that's width by height (see here for the various ways to specify geometry). However, it won't warp a square gif into a rectangular one (maybe there is a way to force that, there are a lot of options). Also, resizing will probably make a mess of most animated gifs. You need to process them first:
convert myimg.gif -coalesce myimg2.gif
The converted myimg2.gif should work properly with animate -resize.
fbi), but I dunno if they do animated gifs (looks like no for FIM, but there is the suggestion there the code base could be useful in doing so).
If you take the time to understand the animated gif format, this is not possible. You can't realistically have an animated gif which is at a lower resoltion and "scale it" to 1080p and not expect it to be "choppy". You need to understand how frame transitions work. This isn't vector data.
You seem to be confusing what a gif file is with a proper video format. Either acquire the content in a sensible format, or do your best to convert it to one using ffmpeg then playback with VLC.
Also, this is not a Raspberry Pi specific question.
