Magnavox 52MF437S manual Annex 1 Magnavox TV Slideshow Format with background music, Introduction

Annex 1 - Magnavox TV Slideshow Format with background music

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Introduction

This document explains how to make a Magnavox 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.

1.Press the MENU button on the remote control after having inserted a USB device and turned on the TV.

Television	TV menu
	Channel list
	Program guide
Multimedia

2.Select Multimedia and press the cursor right.

3.Go to where you stored the slideshow file (.alb) on your portable memory.

4.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 non-networked CE device. The latter is however not forbidden, it is only a recommendation.

Supported XML-tags

The following table gives a description of the XML syntax.

-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.

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" encoding="ISO-885h9-1" ?> <magnavox-slideshow version="1.0" >

<title>Title of the slideshow</title> <audio>audio_url</audio> <slide-duration>30</slide-duration> <slides>

<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>

...

<slide>slide_N-1_url</slide> <slide>slide_N_url</slide>

</slides> </magnavox-slideshow>

Tag Name	Use	Description
magnavox-slideshow	mandatory	Magnavox slideshow signature including the version.
title	optional	The title of the playlist.
audio	optional	The audio-URL following this tag will define the music playing in the background during the slideshow.
		A single song or playlist (.m3u & .pls) are the only valid audio references. Other reference will not result
		in any audio playback. If a single song is referenced the song will be repeated forever. If a playlist is
		referenced the playlist will be played in sequence with a repeat at the end of the playlist.
slide-duration	optional	The default display time (in 0,1 second) of a slide. The TV application isn’t obliged to support this tag.
		The TV application can force the use of one or multiple predefined display times.
slides	mandatory	Identifies the slides to show.
slide	optional	Identifies the URL of the individual slide.

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