Alternating between Images and GIFS - glitching at regular intervals

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I'm attempting to make an image & GIF viewer using the python bindings for this library. Independently, I'm able to display images perfectly fine, same with GIFs. However when attempting to do one after another (specfically displaying a GIF after an Image), an issue occurs whereby the GIF plays for 1-2 cycles then momentarily show's the previous image. I suspect it maybe due to my implementation or a clash of matrix.SwapOnVSync and matrix.SetImage but even if I call matrix.Clear before displaying a GIF, it still glitches (momentarily shows a blank display).

here is the snippet used for displaying images

image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
image.thumbnail((matrix.width, matrix.height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
matrix.SetImage(image.convert("RGB"))

and here is the snippet used for displaying GIFs (taken from the example in this repo)

def display_gif():
    cur_frame = 0
    print('GIF ✅')
    while not gif_stop_event.is_set():
        matrix.SwapOnVSync(canvases[cur_frame], framerate_fraction=5)
        cur_frame = (cur_frame + 1) % num_frames
        time.sleep(0.1)  # Adjust the delay to match your desired frame rate

Thanks in advance