TiVo : Photo app

[denphone]

Originally Posted by blackthorn

I`ve got my albums on picassa set to private.
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin...&answer=113516

l have put quite a lot of my photos on the tivo Facebook/Picasa/flickr apps and it looks great.

[DaBoz]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

It would take just under two days for me, a lot less for you. I don't consider that "forever". If you'd started it when you started this thread, it would have finished by now.

Except none of the supported cloud services have more than a gb storage unless you pay. Also, not sure how practical it is uploading thousands o photos in various folders is.

I have enough dropbox space, shame it's not supported. Just dump files in folders and dropbox does the rest.

Originally Posted by DaBoz

I think we are at cross purposes. TiVo app appears to retrieve photos from cloud services such as google, facebook and flickr. So first you have to get photos from your PC to that cloud service. That requires uploading via your VM broadband connection which is only 1 mbit on my tariff which is very slow for photos from average cameras these days.

So, I have to upload from my PC to a cloud service, then download back to my living room with TiVo.

It would be much easier to connect my TiVo to my PC and cut out the cloud storage middleman.

Make sense?

So, for those that use the photo app, how do they find uploading all their photos via VM broadband?

I upload photos to Facebook and MSN Live and they upload in few seconds
I have no probs at all and I'm just on 10 meg connection

I think what you maybe overlooking - web/onscreen/TVscreen quality of a picture is only about 10th of printable/photo/camera quality

Not sure but I assume both Facebook and MSN live are quite aware of that and compress the photo on upload

If you arer actually uploading 'photo quality' images then

A/ They will take 10 times as long

B/ You wont be able to see this quality on your TV or monitor

= it's waste of time and bandwidth

Even Outlook and Outlook express compress pictures for emailing


EDIT:

I see you've already discovered this now:

Originally Posted by ahardie

I think picassa reduces the size of the picture to cut down on the upload. At my viewing distance I hadn't realised this as the pq looked fine.

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Originally Posted by DaBoz

I have several Gb of photos. How long will this take?

Edit: at least 6gb at last check.

With MSN live you can drag drop load of pictures and it will upload them very fast (4-5 seconds per pic)

Another method is it to use Windows Live Photo Album on your PC and just select all photos & right-click>upload

this uploads them to MSN Live space again which i use to share my photos across the web and even include in Ebay adverts

[DaBoz]

Originally Posted by JethroUK

With MSN live you can drag drop load of pictures and it will upload them very fast (4-5 seconds per pic)

Another method is it to use Windows Live Photo Album on your PC and just select all photos & right-click>upload

this uploads them to MSN Live space again which i use to share my photos across the web and even include in Ebay adverts

That sounds the right sort of thing, as my issue is that I'm starting from scratch, as opposed to an existing regular user of cloud photo storage services and have a catchup.

So, perhaps slightly off topic here, but I think the end justifies the means... Do any of the TiVo supported photo services support any sort of automatic or easy bulk upload process that shrinks images for web and TV viewing?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by DaBoz

Do any of the TiVo supported photo services support any sort of automatic or easy bulk upload process that shrinks images for web and TV viewing?

Yes, Picasa does. By default it resizes the longest side to 1600 pixels.

[DaBoz]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Yes, Picasa does. By default it resizes the longest side to 1600 pixels.

Excellent. I've also now looked into Picasa Web Albums a bit more and the automatic upload feature is called "Sync to Web":
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin...?answer=106176

This auto syncs files in marked folders with resizing to the web.

I think this might work for me after all!

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by DaBoz

This auto syncs files in marked folders with resizing to the web..

I sync photos with windows live photo gallery but I'm not sure if tivo works with windows live

I already have 10 gazillion photos uploaded so I might have to wait until tivo supports it

I upload all my pics to MS SkyDrive (which has 25GB space) for backup (as well as a removable Hard Drive).

I am fortunate, as I can do it after hours at work, where I have a 70Mb/s upload speed.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I upload all my pics to MS SkyDrive (which has 25GB space) for backup (as well as a removable Hard Drive).

I am fortunate, as I can do it after hours at work, where I have a 70Mb/s upload speed.

WOW that's what you call an upload.

[denphone]

l uploaded my 300 photos to facebook online and now l can see then on the tivo app on the tv.