NOTE You can download and look at GIFs in Email, and they are saved to USB storage, but you can't look at GIFs in Photos & Videos or use one as wallpaper.

You can also look at pictures on the web directly in the web browser (see Web).

1Open Photos & Videos .

2Tap the album containing the picture, and tap the thumbnail of the picture.

3Swipe left or right on the screen to look at other pictures in the album.

4To return to the album, tap [album name]. Tap the screen if the album name button is not visible.

Watch a video

BEFORE YOU BEGIN Before you put videos on your device, make sure you have enough storage space on your device to fit the file. Open Device Info and look at the Available field under Device.

To get videos on your device, you can do any of the following:

•Copy videos from your computer (see Copy files between your device and your computer).

•Receive videos as email attachments (see Open email attachments).

You can view DRM-free videos that you receive as email attachments or that you copy from your computer in the MPEG-4, H.263, and H.264 formats. Videos play on your device in landscape orientation.

KEY TERM DRM-free:A file that is not protected by Digital Rights Management. DRM-free video files can be copied as many times as you like and can be played on your HP TouchPad.

1Open Photos & Videos .

2Tap an album.

3Tap the thumbnail of the video you want to watch. Video thumbnails

are identified with a icon.

Use YouTube to view YouTube videos (see YouTube).

Use video playback controls

•Tap the video to manually display or dismiss the playback controls.

Table 2. Video playback controls

Control Function

Play.

Pause.

Move forward or backward (tap and hold the slider, and then drag it right to move forward or left to move backward).

Switch between full-screen view and the original size.

Use the volume button on the side of your device to control the sound level.

Organize your pictures and videos into albums

The Photos & Videos app organizes the pictures and videos you add to your device into predefined libraries and albums. There are two libraries, All Photos & Videos and My TouchPad, each containing several albums. The All Photos & Videos library contains all albums on your device, including those downloaded from online accounts. Pictures downloaded from online accounts are not stored on your device. The My TouchPad library contains only albums containing pictures and videos that are stored on your device. The following table tells you where to find your pictures and videos both in the Photos & Videos app and in your device’s USB Drive storage.

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