Question

Is it possible to create an animation in GIMP that will loop only certain number of times and then stop playing?

I see there is an option that allows looping forever.

But I want the animation to stop after looping 5 times or say 30 seconds not play forever.

What are my options?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell from the GIMP interface, the simple answer is "no."

That said, presuming you are creating an Animated GIF, look at the the Animated GIF section on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format

Note that the 2-byte entry at offset 31D (797 decimal) is FF FF, from experience, this -1 for non-stop repeats.

You could manually change these two bytes (with \005\000 for 5 times). I just tried this and it worked for me.

Good luck.