Anyone using Picture Library

[nielm]

Does anyone manage to use the Picture library function in SageTV?
Whenever I add my digital photo archive (1700 1mb JPGs in a year/month/day diretcory tree) to Sage, I get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exceptions in the log, SageTV memory usage jumps from 80Mb to 236 Mb, and the UI eventually hangs requiring a kill from the taskmanager to restart it...

[gplasky]

I think they're still working on getting the large amount of pictures to work properly. I currently have a couple of hundred and don't have an issue using them in Sage.

Gerry

[falchulk]

I am using it, but just for about 150 pictures of the 05 mustang. It seems to work fine with this amount. I do remember reading a post from dan saying that large amounts of pics still has a bug.

[KoolKat_Milw]

I have roughly 1200 pics and Sage works pretty well with them. Just wish I had a HDTV to view them on

-KK

[jhh]

What size are your pictures? I have 1,8mb pictures and the system doesn't seem to like them. It takes forever before one displays. I tried the same with pictures from an older camera (=smaller file sizes) and that worked fine.

Jan

[tabletsage]

I've loaded RC1 and now my Picture Library is working great,
a bit slow but great.
One thing I'd like to know though, is there any way
to make the picture library see directories?
Right now I've got three photo directories (2002, 2003 and 2004),
and each has about 3000 photos in it. Well, when I load these
directories into the library, Sage lists all of the files in one long
list. It's bad enough having 3000 photos to go through one
at a time, but now I've got 9000 to cycle through.
I'd like to be able to browse in the viewer to different
directories and to be able to somehow fast scroll through each
directory. Are these things possible with some line in
the properties file?

Thanks.

[Narflex]

Just set the library import folder to be the parent directory of these. It shows everything in the picture library relative to the library import path that it came from.

Enjoy.

[stanger89]

Hey, is there any way to zoom pictures, to make small picture fill the screen (but maintain AR)?

[pawn]

I have about 1300 pictures, the average size being about a half MB, and I don't get that error.

The thumbnail generation is a little tedius, but it works pretty good.

[Lester Jacobs]

Originally posted by pawn
I have about 1300 pictures, the average size being about a half MB, and I don't get that error.

The thumbnail generation is a little tedius, but it works pretty good.

I find the thumbnails do not refresh unless I physically navigate over the thumbnail placeholder. Anyone else getting this?

Lester

[kny3twalker]

yeah I have the last problem as well I had to scroll across every picture for the thumbnail to show up

[ckron]

PIcture Library is completely unusable for me. My wife has a Canon Digital Rebel. We are talking 6.3 Megapixels so the jpgs are 2-3MB each and we have a couple thousand pics.

How can Frey say there are no bugs if this is not fixed. It must be nice to pretend there are no bugs just so you can release a product! Let us not forget about the problems with OSD on the PVR-350.

[stanger89]

Originally posted by ckron
PIcture Library is completely unusable for me. My wife has a Canon Digital Rebel. We are talking 6.3 Megapixels so the jpgs are 2-3MB each and we have a couple thousand pics.

How is it unuseable? Is it slow? Does it crash?

How can Frey say there are no bugs if this is not fixed. It must be nice to pretend there are no bugs just so you can release a product! Let us not forget about the problems with OSD on the PVR-350.

That's why it's in beta, to make sure all the bugs are gone. If this is a problem submit a bug report so they know it's there. If no one submits bugs, they may not know they are there.

[mikejaner]

We are talking 6.3 Megapixels so the jpgs are 2-3MB each and we have a couple thousand pics.

Wiith that many pictures at that size, and a 500mhz machine, you are gonna be waiting a helluva long time for thumbnails to be generated. Plus, you're not gonna get to see that res, even on an HD screen. Have you thought about resizing?

[ckron]

Originally posted by stanger89
[B]How is it unuseable? Is it slow? Does it crash?



That's why it's in beta, to make sure all the bugs are gone. If this is a problem submit a bug report so they know it's there. If no one submits bugs, they may not know they are there.

It is unusable because it is very very very slow. It takes over 10 minutes to get a response to any button I push. Thumbnails take over an hour for even one to show up

This is not beta anymore! This is RC. Correct me if I am wrong, but this has been a known problem for some time now.

[ckron]

Originally posted by mikejaner
We are talking 6.3 Megapixels so the jpgs are 2-3MB each and we have a couple thousand pics.

Wiith that many pictures at that size, and a 500mhz machine, you are gonna be waiting a helluva long time for thumbnails to be generated. Plus, you're not gonna get to see that res, even on an HD screen. Have you thought about resizing?

I had the same issue with my 2.4GHz machine before switching over to this one for the OSD to work. Resizing should not be necessary. Windows can thumbnail and display the pics just fine. I also run Digital Media Server on an 800MHz Celeron and it can display and resize the pics on the fly.

[JasonJoel]

I have the same issues. VERY slow while navigating around. Thumbnails don't show up until scrolling over a folder.

The slowness, and unresponsiveness while (I assume) generating thumbnails mkes it useless for me.

Jason