On 18 April 08, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE folk,
This has nothing to do with anything about SuSE, but I know there are a lot of great people out there and expecially some very good graphics guys. I just put on my flame suit and am prepared to run and duck :-)
So here goes: My children bought me one of those digital picture frames this past Christmas. I loaded a whole bunch of family photos from my albums on it. It is set as a slide show and it keeps freezing randomly (every few days) on any random photo. So I emailed the company and here is their reply: ---------------------------------------- Good Morning Bob, We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused. However, this is a symptom of having edited photos on whatever media type you are using to display your pictures. If you have edited any of your photos, even 1, you have changed the compression of that photo to a progressive .JPG & the frame will only display Standard .JPG's. You will need to re-save any edited pictures as standard JPG's & this should solve your freezing issues. If you have any additional questions feel free to respond for further assistance. Have a great day. ------------------------------------- Of course I did and they didn't
Now, of course I have edited many of these photos, some in the Gimp, others in other apps.
The million dollar question is; what the heck is a progressive JPG and how do I resave it. I looked at the meta info on several and some are quite different.
It's not OT if you used a graphics app in SUSE to 'edit' your pictures. I don't know what using 'progressive' does, but I'm sure it could be found in the GIMP help. In the GIMP, if you save a jpg, it often will pop up a small window and you have a few choices you can make, one of them being a tick box to use 'progressive'. Just go back to your original picture, edit it as you want/need and when you save it, just make sure that box is not ticked and that should fix the problem. -- "Democracy cannot survive overpopulation... The more people there are the less one individual matters." Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org