Help re problem displaying photos on USB stick on a TV

Patco said:

Russell Evans said:

I would just set up a free, private, photo, website page: flickr, Google Photos, SmugMug, PhotoBucket, ... or maybe use an online storage service, and hand out the authenticated link via email to anyone that wanted it. I could simply collect email addresses at the event and send the email out after the event, or more likely, just use my phone send out the email right away. Maybe just text people the link even with a message app, Hangouts, Whatsapp, Line, Facebook, whatever. People can just go home and download the photos they want from the online site then.

Thank you
Russell

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I'm probably missing something, but I'm not sure how that would help with the OP's goal of having a background display at the event?:

"It's just for background entertainment and not part of a presentation by the way"

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58128220

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I read Sean's comment, which was quoted in my reply to his post, and I will add back in to the bottom of this post for reference since you cut it out of what you quoted of my reply, as a "what if someone wants a copy of the photos shown at the event? Where you hand out thumb drives with the photos".

I can't think of any other reason for Sean to bring up the idea that it would be confusing for a friend receiving the thumb drive to have the photos in a subdirectory of the DCIM folder, i.e following the standard, in this thread, except for what I thought was implied by his observation, that the OP might need to give out the photos to the attendees of the event.

Even without that assumption, since Sean had already brought up the idea of sharing photos with a thumb drive in the thread, I think it is worth noting that handing out media to share photos with friends really hasn't been needed in most countries, for most of the people in those countries, for a while now. It would be a special case for someone to actually need a sneaker net solution today.

Sean Nelson said:

Member said:

Well following the camera standards would certainly work, although if you're giving a copy of a memory stock to a friend so they can look at photos it would probably be a little less cryptic to use something more self-explanatory than "DCIM".

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Thank you
Russell

As I couldn't easily get the info on the TV, I tried a quick & dirty solution in the hope it might work - and it did! The problem with this particular TV is that it seems not to like exFAT files which stupidly I had used initially as that was the first option my PC gave me.

This morning I tried two sticks used unformatted which worked and one I formatted in FAT32 also worked.

However, being the sort of pessimist who long experience of giving talks all over the place has taught that if you don’t wear a belt and braces the worst will happen but if you do nothing at all will go wrong, I will be taking my laptop & HDMI lead!

Again thank you all very much for your advice and valuable time which enabled me to crack the problem – much appreciated!

Phil

Phil1 said:

As I couldn't easily get the info on the TV, I tried a quick & dirty solution in the hope it might work - and it did! The problem with this particular TV is that it seems not to like exFAT files which stupidly I had used initially as that was the first option my PC gave me.

This morning I tried two sticks used unformatted which worked and one I formatted in FAT32 also worked.

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Phil, I really appreciate your follow-up, and I'm sure others do as well.

As I posted, exFAT is anything but universal. According to Microsoft it has certain advantages for large random-access filesystems, but I suspect that with the current state of USB memory, even SSD, 8TB is large enough and we don't need 128PB yet. The only real advantage of exFAT in 2016 is that individual files can be larger than 4GB. We have run up against this limitation with long videos.

http://ntfs.com/exfat-comparison.htm

CAcreeks said:

The only real advantage of exFAT in 2016 is that individual files can be larger than 4GB. We have run up against this limitation with long videos.

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Yeah, that's the reason I sometimes resort to exFAT and it's the reason why I bring my BluRay player when I'm taking a presentation somewhere, because it can deal with exFAT whereas there's no guarantees for whatever device I happen to end up hooking it up to.

Many thanks again! Your suggestion re exFAT saved the day!

Phil

I had this problem as well and spent hours and eventually a day or two looking for answers.

the answer I found here, finally

carltons said:

I had this problem as well and spent hours and eventually a day or two looking for answers.

the answer I found here, finally

https://www.wiredoffice.com.au/articles/technology-news/tv-will-not-show-some-photos-solved/

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Who says resolution setting doesn't matter? ;-)

TL;DR in the EXIF set resolution to 72 DPI. Thanks for the solution.

Phil1 said:

Many thanks again! Your suggestion re exFAT saved the day!

Phil

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Plenty of answers from some who seem to have never shown images on a TV!

I've never resized the images and never had a problem with my several TVs (Samsung, Panasonic, TCL). They all have firmware for a slideshow, and allow you to navigate any folders that you might have on the USB stick. A friend's Sony TV was a bit cantankerous, and it seemed that I had to select each image that I wanted to display. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but it certainly wasn't intuitive.

If any of your screens are 3840x2160 (4K), you certainly wouldn't want to reduce the resolution. 4K display is about as good as it gets for general images.

For best screen utilisation, you might want to display all your images in "Landscape" orientation and cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio. In my experience, the firmware will display just about any image size and dimensions, but very small images will sometimes be rendered at less than full screen.

Hi,

I have a similar problem with having jpg's on a memory stick and I can play all on my computer but not all on my tv.

I visited New Zealand last month and condensed my jpg files onto a memory stick. To enable the family to understand the venues we visited and the itinerary, I downloaded a pdf file of the north and south islands and when in Photoshop CS5, converted to jpg files.

However, I cannot view these files on the tv. I tried converting the files by saving them as jpg and alternatively as 'web and other devices' but to no avail. The tv does not recognise them.

Anyone any ideas?

TV is fairly new Samsung 40" Bravia.

andymc said:

I have a similar problem with having jpg's on a memory stick and I can play all on my computer but not all on my tv.

I visited New Zealand last month and condensed my jpg files onto a memory stick. To enable the family to understand the venues we visited and the itinerary, I downloaded a pdf file of the north and south islands and when in Photoshop CS5, converted to jpg files.

However, I cannot view these files on the tv. I tried converting the files by saving them as jpg and alternatively as 'web and other devices' but to no avail. The tv does not recognise them.

Anyone any ideas? TV is fairly new Samsung 40" Bravia.

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How is your memory stick formatted? Bravia models before 2012 did not support NTFS.

https://www.sony-asia.com/microsite/bravia_connectivityguide/usbstorage/

It's also possible that Ps CS5 is producing a JPEG format that Sony can't read.

Finally, did you see this post about EXIF resolution on a Panasonic TV?

Hi Phil-Never trust A/V equipment for showing your pictures with your TVs USB slot.Hookup to a dedicated DVD Players USB Slot. It will show them full 16;9 RATIO With no annoying black lines down the sides.provided you you are hooked up to HD.