Hi,
I finally got around to getting a new TV set after thinking and talking about it for several months. I found that it works pretty well even though it is a brand i never dealt with before: Insignia.
The only issue is with viewing pictures on the TV that are located on a USB thumb drive plugged into the side of the TV set. What happens is that the order of the pictures displayed are in the order in which they are stored on the disk itself, according to the FAT file format where the names are stored in the FAT record. In that record, files that are named for example:
file1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg
file4.jpg
will show up on the computer in just that order so you would scroll through the pictures from 1 to 4 in that order.
In the FAT record however, the files may actually appear in this order for example:
file3.jpg
file2.jpg
file1.jpg
file4.jpg
and the TV set will display these files in THAT actual order, 3,2,1,4, instead of in order 1,2,3,4 as on the PC computer.
I know that probably the only way to fix this is to do some programming to modify the USB disk contents using low level API function calls, but then that would be required every time i store something to the disk from the computer. I thought i would ask around anyway to see what other people are doing too.
Thanks.
.
I finally got around to getting a new TV set after thinking and talking about it for several months. I found that it works pretty well even though it is a brand i never dealt with before: Insignia.
The only issue is with viewing pictures on the TV that are located on a USB thumb drive plugged into the side of the TV set. What happens is that the order of the pictures displayed are in the order in which they are stored on the disk itself, according to the FAT file format where the names are stored in the FAT record. In that record, files that are named for example:
file1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg
file4.jpg
will show up on the computer in just that order so you would scroll through the pictures from 1 to 4 in that order.
In the FAT record however, the files may actually appear in this order for example:
file3.jpg
file2.jpg
file1.jpg
file4.jpg
and the TV set will display these files in THAT actual order, 3,2,1,4, instead of in order 1,2,3,4 as on the PC computer.
I know that probably the only way to fix this is to do some programming to modify the USB disk contents using low level API function calls, but then that would be required every time i store something to the disk from the computer. I thought i would ask around anyway to see what other people are doing too.
Thanks.
.