Reading Metadata property of GifBitmapDecoder…why is it null?

Question

How can I read the delay, left and top offset data for each frame of a gif? I\'ve gotten this far.

1. Load the Gif

   var myGif = new GifBitmapDecoder(u

Answer 1

First, you need to Freeze the Frame you want to obtain the metadata from:

var frame = myGif.Frames[0];
frame.Freeze();

Second, the frame.Metadata returns an ImageMetadata which does not have a GetQuery method, but in fact the object returned is of type BitmapMetadata which has a GetQuery method, so you just need to cast frame.Metadata to BitmapMetadata as you do in the last commented lines of your code.