Annex 1 - Philips TV Slideshow Format with background music
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Introduction
This document explains how to make a Philips slideshow file with background audio.
Be aware that the content of this document is addressing technical or software skilled users.
To start the slideshow open the slideshow file in the Multimedia browser of your TV.
‡Press the MENU button on the remote control after having inserted a USB device and turned on the TV.
Television | TV menu |
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| Program guide |
Multimedia |
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®Select Multimedia and press the cursor right.
ÒGo to where you stored the slideshow file (.alb) on your portable memory.
†Select the slideshow file and press the OK button to start the slide show.
General Rules
-The slideshow will use plain ASCII XML syntax to allow the creation and editing of the slideshow files using simple tools.
-All references to network content must be based on the global address of the content.
-Content on a Portable Memory (PM) doesn't have a global address; as a result content from a PM can never be referenced from a slideshow not stored on the PM itself.
-To maintain portability, a slideshow stored on a PM should ONLY reference content on the same PM. Referencing global addresses can result in inconsistencies if the PM is used on a
-It is preferable that URL’s referencing PM content are based on a relative path starting from the directory where the slideshow is stored. This path includes the device or drive name of the PM.
Supported XML-tags
The following table gives a description of the XML syntax.
An absolute path to content will also be supported.
-relative path:
pictures\test1.jpg, tamper.jpg, ..\new\bird.jpg, …
-absolute path:
USB1:\pictures1\foo_bar.jpg, C:\f1.jpg, \organization.jpg, …
General Format
The format and syntax below will be used to create the slideshow file (simple ascii text) with the extension .alb (.ALB). Examples: slshow1.alb, summer_holiday_2004.ALB, test.alb, …
The following syntax should be used to create the text file:
<?xml version="1.0"
<title>Title of the slideshow</title> <audio>audio_url</audio>
<slide>slide_1_url</slide> <slide>slide_2_url</slide> <slide>slide_3_url</slide> <slide>slide_4_url</slide> <slide>slide_5_url</slide> <slide>slide_6_url</slide>
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</slides>
ENGLISH
Tag Name | Use | Description |
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mandatory | Philips slideshow signature including the version. | |
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title | optional | The title of the playlist. |
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audio | optional | The |
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| A single song or playlist (.m3u & .pls) are the only valid audio references. Other reference will not result |
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| in any audio playback. If a single song is referenced the song will be repeated forever. If a playlist is |
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| referenced the playlist will be played in sequence with a repeat at the end of the playlist. |
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| optional | The default display time (in 0,1 second) of a slide. The TV application isn’t obliged to support this tag. |
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| The TV application can force the use of one or multiple predefined display times. |
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slides | mandatory | Identifies the slides to show. |
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slide | optional | Identifies the URL of the individual slide. |
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