What latency should a GIF be at to play back at real time?

Depending on the format of the movie, the frame rate ranges between 24 and 60 frames per second. However, this is quite high for a GIF file to handle, so 10 to 20 will give a smooth enough animation.

the program is wierd. it says latency(ms) and the lowest is 25, the highest being 5000 but even the highest is laggy.

Ah, those are milliseconds, not frames per second. A 30 fps animation would have a 1000/30 = 33⅓ ms delay between each frame. A smaller delay (ms) is faster.

ahhh… I’ll try it again, but it seems like it’s not going to be very smooth.

You should be able to specify a delay of 0ms if you want, which will cause the browser to render the individual frames successively as fast as it can…

…except…

for Internet Explorer, which will slow down GIF animation if it specifies more than 20fps.