Re: JPEG pictures do not display in WIN XP media center
- From: BMS <BMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:55:02 -0700
Thank you, Dana...
What a great tip on getting jpgs to display in MCE!! After four months of
trying to figure out what I had done to screw up my brand new Vaio notebook
that I bought for use at trial and in seminars/marketing presentations, I
just spent the entire afternoon (literally) with Sony support, and they were
telling me it is their experience that MCE will not display image files from
anywhere except the physical hard drive of the computer where MCE is
installed, and then only in specific folders, and jpg ONLY if it is the right
"type" of jpg. What idiots.
I used your tip on regedit (for some reason, there was NO definition of
perceived type for jpg files), and voila! I can suddenly see my jpg files --
not only on my physical hard drives on the MCE computer, but also from my
network drives -- which is the wholoe damned reason I bought the system (Sony
Vaio VGN-AX580G) in the first place. It happens that many trial courts in
California require digital exhibits (such as scanned images and powerpoint
presentations) to be deposited into and accessed from a central (network)
archive maintained by the Court for use at trial (in order to avoid
inadmissible evidence getting in front of the jury "inadvertently").
Thanks a million!! You truly are an MCE MVP in my book, Dana!
Brian (Oakland/SF California)
"Wiry" wrote:
I found that if you put your videos in this folder:.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos
....they will show up in Media Center. That is where all the sample videos
are. I found that there was no way to get them to show up unless I put them
into that shared folder (or a copy of them, at least). This should really be
documented in the manual or least on the support site (which it isn't -
thanks God for MVPs...)
And just a comment: The entire isssue with Photoshop causing all these
problems should really be addressed by Dell. Users should not have to be
going into the registry to fix things. Many people are wary of doing this and
for good reason - you can really mess things up for yourself. I spent hours
onthe phone with an XPS tech support person who knew nothing about this issue
- he was an expert but completely in the dark about this. I told him to go to
the boards and search a bit - -educating himself and his coworkers seems like
a really good idea. And even when I uninstalled Photoshop, I still had the
problem and was not willing to go into the registry again for fear of really
screwing things up. And so...because of issues I had dealing with the
registry, I had to return my original system and get a brand new one, on
which I will not install Photoshop (which is ridiculous, really). I
appreciate Dell's willingess to try and help and then give me a brand new
system, but with all the postings about this issue, the company should take a
good hard look at the system (or at least at the support and Help it
provides).
--
- Wiry in Denver
"saby" wrote:
sorry ...i forgot to mention something important....
i did the same thing that you said for the pictures, but i went into the mpg
folder and added the PerceivedType, i wrote video instead of picture.....it
helped for some video's but i still have some that wont show up on media
center.... which other folder to i need to go into ??
thx again
saby
"saby" wrote:
helo....this message has helped one of my problems :D
but i'm still stuck with video clips on my pc that i can only watch with
windows media player.....media center won't recognize them....
it's an hour i've been searching the net for an answer, but i can't find
it....
i had found once on a web site, the same solution that u gave for the pictures
but they gave it for video's (too bad my video's were working good bak then,
i
didnt add the web site to my favorites and i cant find it anymore)
so im wondering and hoping really hard that you can help me out
thx a lot
saby
"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
From the FAQ at www.MediaCenterStuff.com -
Q: My JPG images will not display. How do I fix that?
A: This seems to be a common problem with systems that have Office and/or
PhotoShop. You can fix it easily...
Run REGEDIT from the Start/Run dialog.
Expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, scroll down to JPG and JPEG entries.
Click on JPG or JPEG entry - on the right should be an entry for
PerceivedType.
That entry should say "image".
If it's not there, add it by right-clicking on JPG or JPEG and selecting
New/String Value.
Enter "PerceivedType", then press Enter.
Double-click on PerceivedType, then in the dialog enter "image".
Make sure you check both JPG and JPEG - you may need to fix both.
Hopefully that'll fix it...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"normsultmanis@xxxxxxxxx"
<normsultmanis@xxxxxxxxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello everyone,
I bought a brand new Dell XPS gen 5 computer a few months ago.
I was told by Dell sales that the Media centre edition was amazing and
that
I should get it. I figured okay $50 Can is not that much. For months now I
have tried to figure why my folders that are packed with 100's of jpgs DO
NOT
WANT TO SHOW when I know they are there. It is driving me crazy. The
folder
shows but when I say show Media Centre says the folders are empty. The jps
are not hidden or archived etc. Exactly like the thread I see posted here
by
Pete
I thought that I may need to use the remote -( which I don't have) to
teach
MEDIA CENTRE the location of the photos. Today, Dell tech support told me
that I need to buy the TV tuner card , remote and all the related hardware
to
view my pictures in Media centre. But at Dell support -- 4 different techs
were not sure on that one.
Can anyone help me out on this one.
If it is true that I need the TV tuner card and remote +cabling why does
DELL not say this in the beginning when they promote the Media edition
There is some info in MEDIA CENTRE help?? that says the remote should be
used to add pictures to media centre, like the remote links folders.
I appologize fo the lengh of this thread , I am new here but this is
really
making me crazy and Dell is not much help.Thank You
"Pshackle" wrote:
I am impressed by the understanding and ingenuity of CWatters. I copied
my
pictures folder to a new one, then deleted the old one and let WIN XP
regrow
a new pictures folder. Then I put just one picture in it, in a folder. I
opened Media Center and deleted all folders in the pictures records,
then
added back just the one existing folder. I then tried to open it and
Media
center still reported back that the folder was empty.
Since I have an absolutely stock Dell PC with preinstalled Media center,
and
I am trying to view jpg pictures which are amongst the commonest types, I
suspect that what is happening to me here should happen to most people.
Presumably there must be something different about my installation, if
media
center really can open jpgs for other people. Setting the properties of
a
jpg picture to "open with media center" just produces the result of a
picture
that will not open at all, unless you specify some other program. One
clue
may be that sometimes the thumbnails on the exterior of the folders do
show
up in the folder view of media center. But nothing shows up inside the
folder. I rerally appreciate the interest and encouragement of CWatters
in
this matter.
Another clue might be that when I first turned on the computer a bunch
of
demonstration pictures showed up in media center, which I deleted without
a
moment's thought. If I had realized that this problem was going to happen
I
would have taken a close look at their nature and location. I wonder if
there
could be something special about the JPG encoding that Media Center will
accept. I have trtied testing one scan and 3 scan images, without result.
.......Pete
"CWatters" wrote:
"Pshackle" <Pshackle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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CWatters made a really good set of suggestions here, but intriguinglyof
none
them helped. The discussion previously referred to had XP itselfthe
unable to
read the jpg files. In my case explorer reads the files fine and
windows
picture and fax viewer works great. If I right click on a jpg
picture, and
select "open with media center" then media center opens up and
declares
folder to be empty of valid pictures, unless the picture is a .gif or..bmp.
a
Trying to be creative here, my 6GB of pictures was imported from myprevious
WIN ME machine. In this process the native WIN XP "my pictures"pictures"
folder was
probably overwritten or deleted to be replaced by the imported "my
This might have caused a complication but I dont know how to checkdo
this or
anything about it. All the jpg variations are correctly registered inXP.
WIN
Might be worth getting Windows to re-create the My Pictures folder. Not
quite sure how to do this but I think windows will do it automatically
if
you delete the existing one. I think I'd try moving the pictures to a
new
folder then deleting "My Pictures" and see if windows recreates it.
Then
move the pictures back. Might be worth checking on the web to see if
there
is a way to force Windows to recreate the My Pictures folder incase it
doesn't do so automatically.
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