CE 5.0 Video and Animation

I've searched this and other groups and haven't come up with an
acceptable solution.

We need to be able to display animated gifs and video (avi,wmv,mov...
any single format will be fine) within a control on a form.

We have Windows CE 5.0 platform with windows media player 9. It is not
pocket pc or windows mobile.

1. For the gifs, I've looked at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ioncontrol.asp
and don't want to have to convert all of our gifs to this storyboard
format. Actually I don't know of a program that will do this for me.
Has anyone found a solution for this?

2. For the video, I understand that for WMP 10, I could build an
activex wrapper and use the activex version of WMP, but we currently do
not have WMP 10 available and I'm not sure if our supplier would be
able to add it to our devices.

Has anyone found/developed a non-wmp solution for diplaying video
within the compactframework? or are there other 3rd party solutions
available that I'm not finding?

Thanks,