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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Photos / February 2008DCF - compliant jpegs.
I cannot display my photos on TV unless they are "DCF compliant". What does this mean, and how do I convert them to this? My camera produces 5meg digital jpeg photos. Frank DCF is simply Designed rules for Camera Files. It is a way of naming files and all cameras use this. The name of the file from your camera should be something like this: PICT0138.jpg or DSCO1244.jpg It should be, as above, 8 characters followed by .jpg If you rename the files to something like: A night in San Francisco.jpg This is not DCF compliant. However, you should tell us how you are trying to display these files on your TV. DCF compliant was needed several years ago but no longer needed for new devices to display files on TV, such as a recent (a few years ago) DVD player. >I cannot display my photos on TV unless they are "DCF compliant". > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Frank I tried renaming the files, but the same problem occurs. > DCF is simply Designed rules for Camera > Files. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >> >> Frank If you tried renaming the file, it must be EXACTLY the same 8 characters that your camera uses. Still, you have to tell us, how are you trying to display these photo files on your TV. You copied the files on a CD and you use a DVD player to display them? Or you connect your camera directly to your TV to display the photo files from the camera memory card? Difficult for us to try to help if we have no info about how you tried to display the photo files on your TV. >I tried renaming the files, but the same problem occurs. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>> >>> Frank > If you tried renaming the file, it must be > EXACTLY the same 8 characters that your [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > no info about how you tried to display the > photo files on your TV. I can display them on TV with the DVD player. It is with the memory stick ( a "SanDisk Cruzer"" 2.0gb) that does not work. My TV is a Sony Bravia with a USB slot in the side, and I have tried the original camera (Olympus) filenames. >>I tried renaming the files, but the same >>problem occurs. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>>> >>>> Frank >>If you tried renaming the file, it must be >>EXACTLY the same 8 characters that your [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > side, and I have tried the original camera > (Olympus) filenames. Sorry to hear that the Sony viewer is so challenged... >>>I tried renaming the files, but the same >>>problem occurs. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>>>> >>>>>Frank -michael "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused." I also have a Sony Bravia and can display files from a Minolta camera copied on a USB flash drive. I think what you called a "memory stick" SanDisk Cruzer is actually a USB flash drive and not a memory stick (memory stick is a Sony memory card used in Sony cameras). The problem you are having with this "cruzer" is, most probably, that it has a variety of options on it and not readily recognized by your TV as having the proper camera compliant folder/file system. I have the same problem with the SanDisk Cruzer. A pain in the neck, not the fault of your TV. >> If you tried renaming the file, it must be EXACTLY the same 8 characters >> that your camera uses. [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Frank Thanks, I will see if I can buy a suitable "memory stick." >I also have a Sony Bravia and can display >files from a Minolta camera copied on a USB [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Frank > Thanks, I will see if I can buy a suitable > "memory stick." Making it work is probably as simple as creating a directory in the root directory containing another directory called DCIM, which, in turn, contains your .jpg files. -michael "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused." > I also have a Sony Bravia and can display files from a Minolta camera > copied on a USB flash drive. I think what you called a "memory stick" [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > camera compliant folder/file system. I have the same problem with the > SanDisk Cruzer. A pain in the neck, not the fault of your TV. Although I agree with you about a workaround for the problem, I *do* think this is the fault of the TV. Any flash memory picture viewing software, in the age of multi- gigabyte flash memories, should contain versatile but simple directory navigation software, so that with the remote control the user can navigate to the desired directory and select it for photo viewing. The specifications for the universal FAT file system are well-known and the software for doing this directory navigation is trivial in its complexity. Any *real* designer would include this capability before advertising that their product contains a flash memory photo viewer. Forcing all the photos on a modern flash memory device to be in a single directory, or presenting them as if they were, is stupid, since there could easily be thousands of them on a single device (and, in fact, this is a common way for people to carry their "public" photos around). -michael "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused." |
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