Animated WebP files suddenly not being read anymore

[Meita80]

Like the title says, the program suddenly won't read animated WebP-files anymore.
Static WebPs, animated GIFs, JPGs and PNGs are still being read without problems.

Once a folder containing animated WebP files is loaded and a search is initialized, the search bar appears for a brief moment (showing the correct amount of files found in that folder!) but then just disappears.
The program does NOT crash at that point, the search simply isn't carried out.
If the folder contains a combination of animated WebP, animated GIF and JPG files, GIF and JPG files are read fine while animated WebP files are simply ignored.

I've tried clean "installs" of versions 2.3.12 and older, with no luck.
Changing any combination of options doesn't make a difference, as well.

I had been using different versions (pre-compiled releases) of the program without any problems whatsoever for over a year,
and this issue just appeared out of the blue a few days ago.

I'm on Win10 with all of the latest updates installed, Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU.

THX
Meita

[Meita80]

I possibly found the reason for the search ending prematurely in some cases.
When the program tries to read a GIF that in reality is an animated WEBP with the wrong extension,
the search just stops. If it's the other way around, the search sometimes stops and sometimes doesn't.

STILL, if the search goes through fine, animated WEBP files are ignored in the search results, even if duplicates
exist in the chosen folders.