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Old 05-11-2009, 8:18 AM   #1
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Digital Frame

Um... Not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but anyway...

I'm thinking to buy a digital frame, but having a still image in it doesn't sound anything special to me.

Is there any way to edit an image of a person for example, and change the background to a moving flash clip? I mean, let's say I'm standing in a forest, and all around me, trees, water, etc... are moving except me. Like a screensaver or something.

Is that possible?
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Old 05-11-2009, 8:26 AM   #2
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Re: Digital Frame

you can modify digital photo frames to display animated gifs
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Old 05-11-2009, 8:30 AM   #3
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Re: Digital Frame

Hm... Must I modify them? There aren't digital frames that have the capability to play gif?
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Old 05-11-2009, 8:39 AM   #4
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Re: Digital Frame

not that i know of, kinda silly really if they dont make them.

i have however seen a TV/photo frame combo that looks just like any photoframe but somehow fits a tv tuner in it.

im sure you could do something with that.
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Old 05-11-2009, 9:11 AM   #5
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Re: Digital Frame

I believe part of the problem is that .gif format has a number of legal hurdles about supporting it; Unisys have a patent on the compression format used.
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Old 05-11-2009, 9:25 AM   #6
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Re: Digital Frame

I found that some of them can play MPEG, AVI, and some other video formats... So, what if I find a digital frame with a good "repeat mode", and instead of a gif, use a video background? I could mix an image on a video .
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Re: Digital Frame

Sounds like it should work.
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