2014-09-04, 00:34
I bought a digital photo frame a few weeks back and discovered an "ick" with it. I'm wondering if I can start from scratch and use XBMC as part of the replacement.
The photo frame can display JPGs and H.264 videos (but not GIFs). Most of my pictures are simple JPGs but a few is a fade from a heavily filtered version of the image to the image itself -- so it appears to come into existence. To do this, I used photoshop to create the videos. On the photo frame, if I put them in a folder by themselves, it works. It cycles through the videos. Each video is 1 to 2 seconds long.
If I put JPGs in the same folder as the videos, the photo frame displays only the JPGs and skips the videos. I asked the support guys about this and they said that it was a design decision. It seems arbitrary to me.
My question is: can I have JPGs and short H.264 in a slide show and have XBMC show the JPGs for some length of time along with running the short video when they are encountered in the sequence? To rephrase: can I have JPGs and videos in the same slide show?
Also, it appears from a short amount of surfing that XBMC can now do animated GIFs. But if someone can definitely confirm that, that would help to. I don't really care if I have to use GIFs or video to get the effects I want.
Thank you for your time,
pedz
The photo frame can display JPGs and H.264 videos (but not GIFs). Most of my pictures are simple JPGs but a few is a fade from a heavily filtered version of the image to the image itself -- so it appears to come into existence. To do this, I used photoshop to create the videos. On the photo frame, if I put them in a folder by themselves, it works. It cycles through the videos. Each video is 1 to 2 seconds long.
If I put JPGs in the same folder as the videos, the photo frame displays only the JPGs and skips the videos. I asked the support guys about this and they said that it was a design decision. It seems arbitrary to me.
My question is: can I have JPGs and short H.264 in a slide show and have XBMC show the JPGs for some length of time along with running the short video when they are encountered in the sequence? To rephrase: can I have JPGs and videos in the same slide show?
Also, it appears from a short amount of surfing that XBMC can now do animated GIFs. But if someone can definitely confirm that, that would help to. I don't really care if I have to use GIFs or video to get the effects I want.
Thank you for your time,
pedz