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Viewing photos on Humax HDR - it skips some
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I've copied some photos over onto the HDR.
It won't show some of them. It just skips through the filenames without changing the photo on screen until it gets to one it likes.
The bizarre thing is I can't figure out why it likes some but not others. It's not down to the camera they came from, or the orientation (landscape/portrait), or whether they were edited, or the filesize, or the number of pixels - because at least some photos from each possible combination of those work, while others from those same combinations don't.
It's something else that means it will never display some photos, but always happily display others.
Anyone got any ideas what else it could be?
Anyone had this problem?
Cheers,
David.
It won't show some of them. It just skips through the filenames without changing the photo on screen until it gets to one it likes.
The bizarre thing is I can't figure out why it likes some but not others. It's not down to the camera they came from, or the orientation (landscape/portrait), or whether they were edited, or the filesize, or the number of pixels - because at least some photos from each possible combination of those work, while others from those same combinations don't.
It's something else that means it will never display some photos, but always happily display others.
Anyone got any ideas what else it could be?
Anyone had this problem?
Cheers,
David.
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Sometimes it's picture size, sometimes it's file size, sometimes it's just an incompatible JPEG format (all JPEG's aren't the same).
I went through a flash drive a few years ago for a customer, as he complained some pictures wouldn't play on his TV - the offending ones were all from a specific camera (Nikon I think?), and were absolutely HUGE.
Easiest thing to try is converting all of them to a 'sensible' size, no point in anything larger than 1920x1080 for displaying on a TV.
Many of the "huge" (12Mpixel= 4272x2848) ones display just fine.
I'll try loading+saving, though some of the ones I've re-saved don't display (but some do!).
Cheers,
David.
Some photo packages allow you to do bulk conversions, which would make it easy.
If only it was that simple. 1920 x 1080 is 16:9, photographs aren't usually 16:9. To do it properly you have to crop the part of the picture you want manually (unless the bits you want to see are always in the same location) to a 16:9 aspect ratio. Having done this you can run a macro to resize. This will give you no black borders on the screen. If you attempt to resize photographs to 1920 x 1080 you will distort the image or will have to choose a size to resample to which leaves black borders on the screen
This of course ignores the problem of portrait format.
Example my Panasonic TZ40 takes images of 4986 x 3672 pixels.
Using Photoshop and a 16:9 constrained crop gives an image of 4896 x 2754. It's hard to pick up the whole horizontal image with the crop tool hence the loss of a few edge pixels.
Now I've thought to check, cPicture does it. I already have that (which is a good job, because I can't find an XP compatible download on their website any more). The batch resize with maximum dimensions and file size should be perfect.
Cheers,
David.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cpicture_le.html
This even helped with photos that were already smaller than that, so I think the suggestion to just open and re-save them may have been equally valid.
It's a shame this is needed, and it makes a mockery of the idea of having the photos on the Humax as a backup, but hey ho.
Found another gotcha last night: The mp3 playback isn't gapless (which I knew - but it's a real pain when listening to a dance mix album!), and it doesn't like mp3s with ID3v2 tags in them - if an ID3v2.3 tag is present, it makes the Humax skip the very start of the track, cutting off the opening note or chord or whatever. Removing the tags solves this problem.
Bang goes the idea of using the same mp3s in the Humax as in my mp3 player. I'll need a separate set, or an easy way of stripping the tags while transferring them.
Cheers,
David.