I'm trying to upload photo's to my HDR using various memory sticks, but no jpg's seem to be recognised.

I've discovered how to navigate through the menu system to look for the photos, but to no avail.

Any tips or advice about uploading?

Also, the same could be said for music. Any idea about the file formats it accepts?

Thanks in advance.

Are you actually in the photo section of the hdr menu when you put your memory stick in ?

I made that mistake, was in the video section of "media" and it didn't pick any photos up so make sure you are in the photo section of "media" before you insert your memory stick.

Same with music, it will only pick up mp3 files if you are in the music section of "media"

That implies don't inset the usb until you've got to the photos section, is that the case?

no put the usb in but you have to press the corresponding colour button, ie red for video blue for pictures, if the usb contains piccys and you've selected the red button it cant see the pictures on the device

Done all that, but the USB still appears as not containing jpg's. Any other ideas?

Some of my JPEG's wouldn't display either. I THINK they were progressively encoded.

After I re-encoded them using standard encoding they were OK.

Ex-Tivo, have you been able to access any files? Just thinking whether you have the drive formatted in FAT32 or not.

Ok - I'm having a problem with photos displaying correctly on the HDR

I've bought a 1Tb ext HD and have plonked all my MP3 and JPEGS on it (more to provide yet another backup than for actual playback on the HDR)

The Music files play back Ok and some of the JPEGS are Ok but others will not display at all.

Seems like the problem is with photos from my 8.1 MP camera whilst older photos from a 3.1MP camera are OK .........is the higher resolution of these photos giving the HDR a problem and if so could this be a bug?

Dunno if it is a bug or not, but from day one, the box will not display a picture over a certain size. Dunno what this size is, either, sorry...

You need to resize the pictures that can't be displayed, as the HDR does not do this and then display them...

Ta muchly

Found this on the "other channel"

http://www.avforums.com/forums/frees...re-viewer.html

Seems like the limit is 1Mb - surely a poor limitation in these days of high res cameras??

It will do 10Mp, just tried it with one from my Nikon D80 at 3872 x 2592 pixels 2.1Mb file.

Put in usb
Press blue to change to photo
Press blue again to Change Device
Cursor right select USB1
click on folder twice to open root
click on file to display

Going to try resampling in Pshop to 20Mp I will post if it works

20Mp 7744 x 5184 5.4Mb also displays. It takes ages to load though (the foxsat working hard to scale it down to fit the screen maybe).
Last edited by grahamlthompson : 28-01-2009 at 16:17

Ok -that could be the problem!! ..................the higher res pictures don't load in time before the slide show continues to the next one......... i shall investigate!

I think you will find they will eventually load just takes a long time. To use the slide show effectively you really need to crop and resize to 1920 x 1080 to eliminate the scaling overhead. The best way I have found without messing about is to stick the big photos on a blank DVD and play them at 1080p from a Blueray player.

Waited a long time....... still didn't load photos that were over 2000Kb in size

This makes the viewer virtually unusable for large file size photos

Did you try loading them one by clicking one waiting for it to load and then pressing next ?. But as you say it's not a well thought extra facility.

Yep - even copied one over to the HDR's main HD and clicked on that one photo ...still didn't open ............beginning to think it's something about the JPEGS produced by that particular camera.......... Windoze opens them fine on the PC

It's looking a little like that. Just stuck the usb stick in with the 2 big jpg files on clicked on the first one and the 2 display in turn with about a 10 - 15 sec turn round time. Think this might be limited by the usb transfer speed capability. If you have a photo editor try opening a few and resaving them with different names as this should hopefully sort out any foibles with the camera originals. Not come across windoze so not a clue what it can do.

is that microsoft windoze?

Silly me should have looked it up

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Windoze

Graham you stick with the technical stuff I'll do the easy stuff

Got to admit it fooled me completely what a P***t.

.............must be using a Mac??

Trying to give it up it's too cold and draughty

I use PhotoShop's batch facility to automate the scaling of my 7Mp jpegs to 1440 x 1080. My Canon G6 always produces slightly soft pictures straight out of the camera, so I have created macros to resize and sharpen them. They look pretty good too.

Geoff