Windows XP Media Center: photos fail to display correctly?

[mutatedjellyfish]

Hey, I was wondering if any of you could help me out. I set up a Windows XP Media Center box for a digital picture frame/ mp3-stereo things for my new apartment, and everything works peachy except the slide show. No matter if I have it on animated transitions or fading, it will show a picture, fade to black, stay black for about 10 seconds, then fade in another picture.

If it helps at all, its choosing not to display certain pictures: if I restart the slide show, it will choose to not display other pictures. It just comes up black instead of a picture. Some pictures it wouldn't display before, it will now display.

All pictures are jpegs.

Anyone seen anything like this? Thanks for your help.

 

[mutatedjellyfish]

It seems to go by threes. It will display pictures 3,6,9, with 2 black screens between each, then it will go back and display 2,5,8, with 2 black screens between each, then it will go back and display 1,4,7, again, with 2 black screens between each.

What in the hell?

 

[zacdl]

The "not displaying certain pictures" just sounds like a randomized picture issue. Do you wait for it to cycle through? Even if it cycles through to the first starting picture, it doesn't display some of them?
In all honesty I think you have it on a random setting.

As for the black screen, do the black screens appear between each photo? I think you may have it on some sort of delay setting, although I wouldn't have any idea WHAT sort of setting.

 

[mutatedjellyfish]

I've fiddled with all of the settings, and nothing has produced a different result. The same thing happens no matter what the settings.

It cycles through the pictures, but it just doesn't display certain ones and shows a black screen instead. Then on the next cycle, it'll display a different set of pictures and black out other ones. I'll illustrate. I'll go and select picture 1 of 10 pictures and cycle through them by hand, no slide show. bracketed pictures are not shown and a black screen is shown instead. Unbracketed pictures are shown as normal:

[1] [2] 3 [4] [5] 6 [7] [8] 9 [10]; [1] 2 [3] [4] 5 [6] [7] 8 [9] [10]; 1 [2] [3] 4 [5] [6] 7 [8] [9] 10;

Then it starts the pattern over. It completely skips over the bracketed pictures and displays a black screen instead. But it has no problems showing previously skipped pictures in another cycle...

I'm so confused.