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New MessageSoftware for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) elowe
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Is anyone using their ePods as a digital photo frame? I want to display my photos on it when I'm not using it, and I can't seem to find anything other than Resco Pictureviewer to work on my epods.

Resco seems to display my pictures in only 8 bit color instead of 16 bit, even when I have the recommended amount of memory set in the control panel.

Anyone have anything else they are using?

04-04-2001 09:32:30

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) Sinner
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I had my ePods set up displaying Jpegs randomly selected via an ASP script on my webserver at home.

This will work for your needs assuming you have your ePods networked. Now I find myself wondering if ePods internet explorer has a "theatre-mode" got to check that out when I get home. Would work even better.

I am not currently using the ASP code I mentioned but I'll see if I can dig it up. Should work on any Microsoft Windows webserver.

04-05-2001 09:59:55

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) Sinner
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Email me for the code for the pics. I don't think I can paste it in here but I'll try.
Cut and paste this into a file called pictures.asp in a directory on your webserver called /pics/

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Random Generated Picture</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!--Copy starting from here-->
<CENTER>
<%

set fso= createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

dirname = "../pics/"
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(server.mappath(dirname))
Set filez = folder.Files
FileCount = folder.Files.Count

Response.Write "<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=""6; URL=pictures.asp"">"
Randomize
Dim RandomNum, UpperBound, LowerBound
LowerBound = 1
UpperBound = filecount-1 '# of pics minus the asp file
RandomNum = Int((UpperBound - LowerBound + 1) * Rnd + LowerBound)
%>
<IMG SRC="<% = RandomNum %>.jpg">
</CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

04-05-2001 10:15:48

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) Sinner
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Forgot to mention that the pics need to be named <some number>.jpg

so files in your directory should be numbered 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg and so on.

Response.Write "<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=""6; URL=pictures.asp"">"

change the 6 in the above mentioned line to any number indicating the number of seconds you want the picture to change in. I was using 6 for testing purposes.

04-05-2001 10:18:12

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) elowe
Thanks Sinner,

But my ePods is not networked.. I'm assuming that you mean networked and using IE on the epods to a URL on my local webserver with the ASP code?

But I'm going to try out your code anyways and see what it does with a desktop machine.. :)

04-05-2001 14:43:44

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) xterra2000
ASP code wouldn't work with local file.
04-05-2001 16:24:50

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) Wirelessly_from_ePod
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You might try running the WinCE Web server on your ePods. This
means you can run the above script "natively" on the ePods, by
referencing images stored on an inserted compactflash or even
PCMCIA storage card.

Take a look at:
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=EpodsOne&Post=279&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=smakz.98177046518909


Regards,
Wirelessly_from_ePods.
04-06-2001 20:58:45

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) elowe
Anyone have any other suggestions on how to turn the ePods into a standalone digital picture frame?

Software that will do it without requiring any kind of network?

04-09-2001 00:13:35

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) chimpnads
Hey,
I wrote a C++ app that does grabs images (GIF, BMP, JPG) from a web server on the network and displays them sequentially at 6 second intervals. I will post a link later tonight with the source. It saves the current image to a local file, and replaces that file with the next image.

I have also been working on a way to get a camera display on the epods. Currently, I have a VB app running on my win2000 desktop that captures a series of 160x120 256-gray BMP images using the current video-for-windows device and writes the files to directory accessible via a web server. A small CE app grabs this series of images using HTTP and displays them as fast as it can. I can get about 8 frames per second...no sound obviously. This stuff is far from polished, but I will make it available for anyone that wants it.

04-09-2001 17:13:22

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) chimpnads
The slideshow program is at the following URL (right click to download).

http://al.extremenetworking.net/epods/SlideShowCE.zip

=====================================
ReadMe.txt
=====================================

Web client slideshow for windows CE
-----------------------------------
This program runs on winCE (V2.11 and 2.12) to provide full-screen
slideshows of GIF, JPG, and BMP images. Jpeg images are not recommended
on the Epods, because the CPU is not powerful enough to render them
quickly. I recommend making your images into 640x480 GIF files.

At run-time, the program reads a file called "slides.txt" in the directory
of the specified web server URL. This text file contains a filename of
each image to include in the slideshow. The images are downloaded to
local files ($IDS_TEMP_DIR)/slide1.bmp and slide2.bmp. When screen
is touched, the program closes and the temporary image files are deleted.

Customizeable Parameters
------------------------
There are two customizeable "string table" resources. These
can be changed inside Embedded Visual C++ (click on the Resources tab).
The executable must be re-built after the changes.

IDS_TEMP_DIR
This is the local directory on the device where the
downloaded image files are to be placed. At most, two
image files exist at once.
Example:
"\temp\"
IDS_WEBSERVER_URL
This is the URL of the directory on a network webserver that
hosts the slides and list file.
Example:
"http://192.168.0.2/ceslides/"

04-09-2001 22:52:21

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) whack-a-guac
Will there be a newbie-ized version without the rebuilding exe files? Some of us don't have cpp to edit the exe with.
04-10-2001 02:03:11

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) chimpnads
Give me a week or so, and I will have a version that is easier to configure.
04-11-2001 12:00:21

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) whack-a-mole
much appreciated
04-12-2001 23:31:21

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) bholio
Awhile back I posted sample HTML to make your epods do a slideshow in IE. You do not need a webserver, it uses FILE:// URLs. For each picture, you will need to create a small HTML file. The slideshow will not be random. It uses HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=

Try searching this messageboard for HTTP-EQUIV (case insensitive).

I'm out the door, or I'd be more specific.

04-16-2001 14:30:15

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) elowe
Thanks guys..

bholio,
I found the html code, but can you flesh it out a bit more for me? I don't know html.

<HTML>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" contnet="300;file://xxx.html">
<IMG yadda yadda yadda>
</HTML>

04-16-2001 23:02:22

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) bholio
You have 2 pictures: pb030022.jpg and pb030023.jpg.

Create 2 HTML files and store them on epods:
pic1.html:
<html>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="10; URL=file://C:/WWW/HTML/pic2.html">
<body><IMG SRC="image/Pb030022.jpg" NOSAVE HEIGHT=400 WIDTH=600>
</body>
</html>

pic2.html:
<html>
<body>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="10; URL=file://C:/WWW/HTML/pic1.html">
<IMG SRC="image/Pb030023.jpg" NOSAVE HEIGHT=400 WIDTH=600>
</body>
</html>

pic1.html displays the pb030022.jpg image. 10 seconds later it loads pic2.html which displays pb030023.jpg. 10 seconds later it reloads pic1.html again and the cycle repeats.

change the URL=file://c:/www/html/picx.html to point to where your files on the epod are.
Also change the IMG SRC=image\pb030022.jpg etc.. to point to where your image files are on the epod.

The above works fine on WinNT IE 5. I see no reason why it would not work on epod. You might need IE4 on the epod.

You should probably also remove either the HEIGHT=xxx or WIDTH=XXX in the HTML so your images do not come out squished. Keep one of them so the image will sort of fit on the epods screen. You will have to expermiment a bit.

To add more images, edit the pic2.html and make it point to a pic3.html and make pic3.html point back to pic1.html.

If you know basic/C/anything, it should be simple enough to write a program to generate all of the html files given a directory of image files, rather than have you write all of the html by hand.

04-17-2001 08:51:48

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) chimpnads
Hi,
An easier to use release is now available for my slideshow program. I does not download the images to file, it just keeps the current image in memory. You can customize the web server URL and the slide time period using a registry editor.

Regards,
Alex

http://al.extremenetworking.net/epods/SlideShowCE-0.2.zip

04-20-2001 01:31:00

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) elowe
Thanks. I'll download it and try it out first chance I get.
04-20-2001 07:31:03

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) yellow1
Instead of having to create a list of files, could you have it open all the files in a folder ?
04-20-2001 23:24:32

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) chimpnads
That was my original intention, and plan to include that soon.
04-23-2001 14:59:34

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) OXXH
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I just tried Peter's Viewer 2.5 http://ce.syntact.fi/mobile/index.shtml. Works well and it's a freeware
05-01-2002 16:05:27

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) artc
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does anyone have a copy of these viewers?

I just dusted off my Epods and I would like to try to use my ePods as a digital photo frame

All the above links seem dead?

Thanks in advance!

my email is --> artc at iname dot com

05-14-2002 16:08:46

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) Sniff
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There's an extra period at the end of the link for Peter's Viewer. Here it is without the period:

http://ce.syntact.fi/mobile/index.shtml

05-14-2002 20:45:04

New MessageRE:Software for Digital photo frame? (modified 0 times) OXXH
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Sorry for the extra period. Thanks Sniff for his sharp eyes!
05-15-2002 21:20:06

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