-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-04-18 at 22:03 -0400, Bob S wrote:
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.
Reply privately so I don't tick off the guys anymore.
Well, we can bring it back to topic by using linux apps ;-) The gimp, when saving as jpg, has a tick box labeled "progressive", untick that. Then, the utility "convert" from displaymagick tools can surely do the trick too, but you have to read the manual to find out how. The advantage is that once you find the method you can set it to convert a thousand files in one go: it's command line. However, I don't believe for a second that's the problem. If it were, it would always freeze on the same photo. I guess progressive means that it displays first as fuzzy and improves quality as the file is downloaded. But this is a wild guess without backing. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFICbyWtTMYHG2NR9URAnW1AKCX381eGH22lIZ4y0R9BbyVA29GSQCfXBBC iqh1hZU1WxeO9OWJjpVcsIg= =hX8d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----