Viewing Photos Through Media Share

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Viewing Photos Through Media Share

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Peter

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I have some holiday photos in .jpg format stored on a network drive I use solely for sharing content through media share on my HDR1000. When I go to the folder containing the photos, they appear as a list, showing their filenames and a small preview icon, but when I select to view any of them, they will not appear on screen. All I get is a small buffering type circle in the centre of the screen that never ends. Video content from the same source works fine, only the pictures are the problem. The pictures were originally taken on an iPhone and are in their original .jpg format. Is there likely to be a file format problem?

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 11:50:38 #1 |
grahamlthompson

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What size are they ? Have you tried reducing the size ? For best performance the pictures should be resampled to 1920 wide (max) or 1080 (high) depending on aspect ratio or cropped to 16:9 1920 x 1080. Unless of course you have a 4K TV. You could try some test pictures taken at a lower resolution.

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:06:03 #2 |
REPASSAC

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Try reducing the size to quite small.

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:06:50 #3 |
REPASSAC

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REPASSAC - 24 seconds ago »
Try reducing the size to quite small.

Pipped by Graham again.

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:07:34 #4 |
Peter

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Thanks both - the photos were, on average, 2.5mb in size. I've tried a sample batch resized by 50% and that has now worked. Surprised it can't handle the original size though and I do have a 4K enabled TV.

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:16:38 #5 |
REPASSAC

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I believe the problem is insufficient RAM.

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:30:02 #6 |
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riggy69 - 59 minutes ago »
Thanks both - the photos were, on average, 2.5mb in size. I've tried a sample batch resized by 50% and that has now worked. Surprised it can't handle the original size though and I do have a 4K enabled TV.

Not sure if the 4000T is capable of 4K media playback, some experimentation is required. As Repassac says it's most likely a RAM limitation. TBH there's not much point in using a higher resolution than your TV can handle. Can't the TV play them back at original resolution from a USB stick or via it's own DLNA client ?

| Mon 15 Aug 2016 13:19:09 #7 |