Disable Automatic Thumbnailing of a certain format?

[ProdigySim]

GIF resizing/thumbnailing doesn't work very well, even though I'm using ImageMagick.
Is there any way I can create just a DEFAULT image to take place of the thumbnail, like the ones for movie files?

Thanks

EDIT: I was actually referring to animated gifs, but there's probably not a way to have it only not reisize those.

[kegobeer]

Animated GIFs can be resized, but they just don't animate.  Depending on the version of ImageMagick you are running, the quality may be better in a more recent version, but that's just a WAG.

GD v2.0.32 and higher supports writing animated GIF images, but I haven't experimented with it.  I don't know if there are unique commands required to check for an animated GIF and/or write one to disk.  There's a GIF mod posted that brings back GD/GIF support to Coppermine, and my resized images look pretty good.  If your have v2.0.28 or higher, you can install the mod and see if you get better results.

There are a number of issues when creating GIF images with GD (imagecreatetruecolor doesn't work with GIF images, etc), and they are addressed in the 1.4 version in development.

[ProdigySim]

Great, you answered everything but my question.
(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fprodigysim.com%2Falbums%2Fwpw-20050218%2Fthumb_Smilebig.gif&hash=3dc0759186004b3f2c0cddb3287cdd78542d79a7)
The thumbnails animate, but they do it badly.
I want the thumbnails to NOT BE MADE AT ALL.
You told me ways I could get another application to resize them, and I don't really care about that.
I want what the topic says.
I want to Disable Automatic Thumbnailing of a certain format.
I want to disable automatic thumbnailing of gif files

[Casper]

Use your database tool, and browse to your filetypes table.

Change the entry for gif from this;

gif     image/gif     image

to something like this;

gif     image/gif     document

This will then use the 'file' generic thumbnail.

[ProdigySim]

Thanks!