Talk:AviSynth Basics/@comment-164.41.118.2-20150908152015/@comment-198741-20160604033917

You want to Loop a single frame for the duration you want to freeze. There's also FreezeFrame which might sound like it's exactly what you want but what it in fact does is duplicate a given frame over a section of other frames. Then over that looped segment you can overlay the loading indicator.