Help Please! Red X viewing photos using JavaHMO

[adamwsh]

I just installed javaHMO last night and added the Music and Photos apps.
The Music app seems to work just fine on my Tivo.
The Photo app seems to work ok, unless I try to view photos that I took with my new camera. When I try to view them, the thumbnail appears fine, but when I go to view full-screen, I get a big red X! The only thing I can think of is that the pictures taken with my new camera are very large (over 1MB) while the ones with my old camera where under that. Is there some sort of restriction on the size of photos that can be viewed?
When I was using Tivo Desktop, this was not an issue.

Please help!!

[shredhead]

I just installed javaHMO last night and added the Music and Photos apps.
The Music app seems to work just fine on my Tivo.
The Photo app seems to work ok, unless I try to view photos that I took with my new camera. When I try to view them, the thumbnail appears fine, but when I go to view full-screen, I get a big red X! The only thing I can think of is that the pictures taken with my new camera are very large (over 1MB) while the ones with my old camera where under that. Is there some sort of restriction on the size of photos that can be viewed?
When I was using Tivo Desktop, this was not an issue.

Please help!!

[I realize the date of the post I'm responding to. Better late than never.]

Same thing on my end and the only solution I found is to resize the photos. It appears that the maximum that JavaHMO can handle is 5 megapixel. My old camera was 5mp and I could display the photos, but my new one is 6 and it can display the thumbnails but not the photos.

I just tested this theory by taking a 6mp photo that would not display and resizing it in Photoshop to the size one of the 5mp photos that did display, moved it over to the correct spot on my Linux box, and restarted JavaHMO. The resized photo comes up fine.

To tell you the truth, since it's a little slow bringing up photos in general and my originals are on my Windows PC, I'm probably going to resize all of them to make them come up faster. My TV's can't display the full resolution anyway. There's a Linux tool called ImageMagick that can do it in batch from the command line.

[wmcbrine]

If you're looking for something that runs on Linux and can handle larger pictures, try pyTivo with my photo module (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=377288). Pretty fast, too. Not perfect, but about the only limitations are those in the Python Imaging Library.

[shredhead]

I have DirecTivo units, so I don't think pyTivo is an option for me. Hence the reason to continue using javaHMO which is no longer being developed and supported very little.

[windracer]

Any reason why you're still using javaHMO and never switched to Galleon? While I don't have any 6MP images, the Photo app is much newer than the older javaHMO one and might work for you.

[wmcbrine]

Any reason why you're still using javaHMO and never switched to Galleon?Because that won't work on a hacked DirecTivo (no HME). But pyTivo will -- just not the video.

[windracer]

Heh, I specifically checked to make sure we weren't talking about DTV units before I posted my response, but I accidentally looked at the OP's sig and not shredhead's post. :o Sorry.

[shredhead]

Because that won't work on a hacked DirecTivo (no HME). But pyTivo will -- just not the video.

I don't think pyTivo will work no matter what on a DTV unit. It requires newer software than my unit would support. But even if you can make it work... to coexist with javaHMO you would need Java 1.4.2 AND the version pyTivo needs. I struggled enough to clean up the system to make javaHMO work - I had three versions of Java the OS put on there for me. (Thanks a lot Suse!)

Overall I think pyTivo would be perhaps more trouble than it's worth (for me) since I can just downsize the photos I copy to the Linux box. I successfully did that today using a Windows program called Photoworker. Every one of the photos that gave me trouble, the size reduced versions all displayed fine.

[wmcbrine]

I don't think pyTivo will work no matter what on a DTV unit.Dude, I'm telling you, it's been tested. It does. There's a whole thread here about it...

Edit: Ah yes, here it is (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=377640).

But even if you can make it work... to coexist with javaHMO you would need Java 1.4.2 AND the version pyTivo needs.OK, first of all, pyTivo doesn't use Java; it's written in Python. That's where the "py" comes from. And I can tell you, working with Python is a lot easier than wrestling with Java, not just from a developer's perspective, but even just as an end user. Well, as an end user, I guess Java's not too bad if you've got something like a .jnlp file. But Galleon and JavaHMO, forget it... it was easier for me to write extensions to pyTivo than it was to just get Galleon running.

Secondly, I don't see much reason for them to coexist. pyTivo replaces the basic functionality of JavaHMO. Granted, it doesn't do the fancier stuff (weather, etc.)... although I could add that. (I've thought about it, but it seemed pointless to do that stuff in HMO when we have HME... but I guess there's one group of users that would still benefit, eh?)

[shredhead]

My mix up. I am not sure what it was that required the newer Java that I was reading about...

[wmcbrine]

I did mention Java in the Photo module thread, but only in the context of running Tivo's HD Photos HME app. That specifically needs 1.5.