If I have (well I do hope to have) a television which will display pictures from a USB memory stick plugged into it, what format(s) will it expect on the USB stick? The manual for the TV isn't all *that* helpful, it says (among other things) :-
This TV Supports on JPEG and MP3
Only a USB storage device is recognizable
Please use only a USB storage device which was formatted as a FAT32 file system provided with the Windows operating system. In case of a storage device formatted as a different utility programme which is not supported by Windows, it may not be recognized.
File alignment method of USB storage device is similar to Window XP and filename can recognize up to 100 English characters
So, OK, the USB stick needs to be formatted as FAT32 and have Windows XP compatible file names. That shouldn't be a problem. Does there have to be any particular directory structure?
Oh a few more bits from the manual:-
PHOTO(*.JPEG) supporting file Baseline: 7680 x 4320 • You can play JPEG files only. • Only baseline scan is supported among JPEG (SOF0, SOF1 only). • Non-supported files are displayed in the form of bitmap.
Does anyone know what any of the above means, in particular "Baseline" and SOF0, SOF1?
Going on from the above could one plug a USB disk into the same TV? The manual says "It doesn’t support USB HDD" but I don't really understand how it would know, sure a USB storage device looks the same whether it's a flash drive or a disk drive.
This is all with a view to choosing a new TV on which I want to display photographs which are stored on my PC. I've decided that TVs with a network connection (ethernet) are too expensive and/or aren't particularly good in other ways so I'm looking at the alternative ways of transferring pictures. Quite a few TVs have a 'PC' input (either or both of Sub-D and HDMI) but that requires the PC to be reasonably close to the TV and/or a dedicated PC. If I can get the pictures off the network via USB it would be easier.
Any/all information would be welcome, it's not something I know much about.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:40:54PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:23:58PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
it expect on the USB stick? The manual for the TV isn't all *that* helpful, it says (among other things) :-
It might help to know what television this is.
I haven't bought it yet, the specific one I'm asking the questions about is the LG 47LG6000.
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:23 +0000, Chris G wrote:
This is all with a view to choosing a new TV on which I want to display photographs which are stored on my PC. I've decided that TVs with a network connection (ethernet) are too expensive and/or aren't particularly good in other ways so I'm looking at the alternative ways of transferring pictures. Quite a few TVs have a 'PC' input (either or both of Sub-D and HDMI) but that requires the PC to be reasonably close to the TV and/or a dedicated PC. If I can get the pictures off the network via USB it would be easier.
Any/all information would be welcome, it's not something I know much
about.
Probably completely over the top for displaying your pictures, but I've got an Emprex ME1 multimedia enclosure plugged into my television, with a 500gb HD in it:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/7963346/-/Product.html?searchstring=me1&se...
note: above is for enclosure only, hd is extra!!
It plays mp3s, avis, mpg, jpegs, etc. etc and also records tv from a suitable input. No ogg though :(
It runs linux of course, mips processor. Turns into a usb storage device once a cable is plugged in, for transferring stuff on/off it. Can also play and transfer items to/from a usb storage device. Has an ethernet port for connecting to a network share (for copying files to the unit or playing direct from the share), but out of the box it can not share it's own files. However, it runs linux, so it has hacked firmware available which runs samba alongside the multimedia functions turning it into a server.
I've set mine up with an ethernet cable under the carpet connected to my router, and a samba share available on my desktop computer. I don't run the hacked firmware though as it apparently slows the unit down a little and I don't need that functionality of it.
Gripes. No ogg vorbis, need to update firmware to get the "file copy" function working and it insists during initial set-up of making a partition for recordings, min 5% of total disk space. Otherwise very pleased with it and nice bonus of running linux :)
Rgds,
Martin
Links:
http://emprex-me1.blogspot.com/ http://emprex.forums-free.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/Emprex-ME1
2008/11/21 Martin Collins mobile.sea@googlemail.com:
Probably completely over the top for displaying your pictures, but I've got an Emprex ME1 multimedia enclosure plugged into my television, with a 500gb HD in it:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/7963346/-/Product.html?searchstring=me1&se...
note: above is for enclosure only, hd is extra!!
It plays mp3s, avis, mpg, jpegs, etc. etc and also records tv from a suitable input. No ogg though :( On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:23 +0000, Chris G wrote:
Looks like an impressive bit of kit. I could really do with something like that. Shame about the lack of ogg support. Does it do xVid, FLAC, wma or the windows movie format?
Anybody know of something similar that definitely does xVid, ogg and FLAC? Wireless would be a bonus too.I don't really want to have to re-encode all my media which is in those file formats.
Cheers, BJ
On 21 Nov 09:16, John Woodard wrote:
2008/11/21 Martin Collins mobile.sea@googlemail.com:
Probably completely over the top for displaying your pictures, but I've got an Emprex ME1 multimedia enclosure plugged into my television, with a 500gb HD in it:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/7963346/-/Product.html?searchstring=me1&se...
note: above is for enclosure only, hd is extra!!
It plays mp3s, avis, mpg, jpegs, etc. etc and also records tv from a suitable input. No ogg though :( On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:23 +0000, Chris G wrote:
Looks like an impressive bit of kit. I could really do with something like that. Shame about the lack of ogg support. Does it do xVid, FLAC, wma or the windows movie format?
Anybody know of something similar that definitely does xVid, ogg and FLAC? Wireless would be a bonus too.I don't really want to have to re-encode all my media which is in those file formats.
Hmm, hows about the Cowon A3? http://www.cowonglobal.com/product_wide/product_A3_feature.php
(mmm, shiny!)
John Woodard wrote:
Looks like an impressive bit of kit. I could really do with something like that. Shame about the lack of ogg support. Does it do xVid, FLAC, wma or the windows movie format?
There's a review here:
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php/taxid;2136212605;pid;5830;pt;2#cb .. which says it does Xvid, it mentions WMA but not WMV.
I just ordered one to play around with as I have a network media player but it doesn't support HD.
Shame it doesn't support H.264 (as far as I can see) or have an HDMI connector. But it is much cheaper than most of the similar boxes I've seen.
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