Can you edit your post to have [ code ] and [ /code ] tags around the code... that will make it easier to copy and paste. (I added spaces around the brackets so they'd show up in this message.)

I was answering in the thread about USB playback of FLV files - http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=26441#p26441 - and wondered if the widget could be expanded to also request .flv files with the appropriate MIME type, since it looks like the script here could already serve them.

Hi unwiredben,
   I saw the post too and wondered the same. Its basically a one line change to add in the new type so will see what I can do. Only issue I can see is the current hard coded timing - wil flv finish in time. Will send a post to the thread and advise.

cheers

Nigel

I've used the following logic for scaling/stretching.  The boolean var _configEmbiggen would correlate to the user's setting for "stretch image to fill screen, but still preserve height/width ratio"

            var mcWidth:Number = mc._width;
            var mcHeight:Number = mc._height;
            trace("original width: " + mcWidth);
            trace("original height: " + mcHeight);
            var widthRatio:Number =  mcWidth / _maxWidth;
            var heightRatio:Number = mcHeight / _maxHeight;
            trace("widthRatio: " + widthRatio);
            trace("heightRatio: " + heightRatio);
        
            var scale:Number = Math.max( widthRatio, heightRatio );
            trace("scale: " + scale);
            // if scale > 1, then image is too large and we MUST scale (shrink) the img
            // if scale < 1, then image is too small and we defer to _configEmbiggen setting
            if ( scale > 1 ) {
                trace("downscaling to fit on screen");
                mc._width = mcWidth / scale;
                mc._height = mcHeight / scale;
            }
            else if ( (scale < 1) && _configEmbiggen ) {
                // accept a scale < 1
                trace("upscaling to fill the screen");
                mc._width = mcWidth / scale;
                mc._height = mcHeight / scale;
            }
            else {
                // scale == 1; keep original img dimensions
                // dont allow upscaling; keep original img dimensions
                trace("preserving original img dimensions");
            }
            
            // positioning
            mc._x = ( _maxWidth - mc._width ) / 2;
            mc._y = ( _maxHeight - mc._height) / 2;

Hi Spunk_ (why do i feel strange saying that ?),
   re your questions. In WinScp right click on the photos.pl file on the chumby and select proprties. You should see tick box options for "executable" for various user types - tick them all.

Don't worry about the error message - i get it all the time - just reflects no groups being setup on Chumby.

Enjoy

Cheers

Nigel

i tried. but its not very easy to use. i hope in future you will face it to make it automatically installed.

till then i will use the facebook photo viewer
(upload all photos to a private place there and link the chumby.
1 minute and it works.

Hi spunky_
   I can see your point but I have a different perspective.

  I can install the script in about 2 minutes
  It takes days if not weeks too load all phiotos on facebook and uses vey large amounts of bandwidth
  I dont trust my photos being on line - e.g. recentl facebook changes that makde lots of content public

In terms of automated install - thats not possible due to the way Chumby works - widgets can't access hardware.

Hope facebook works for you though.

cheers

Nigel

Can't really help you with the USB Photo, but why are you against uploading them to the internet?  PicasaWeb, for example, has a setting that makes the photo album completely private, so nobody can see them but whoever you invite.

Fair enough -- and it's certainly true, for your own use and your own photos, there's really no need to upload pics.  It really should be easier to play photos on the Chumby, but hopefully that's down the road.

(For what it's worth, no, I don't believe they're bulletproof and I have read the EULA, but I guess I'm the type of person who listens too much to probabilities -- what are the chances that, of the billions of photos online, that someone is going to either stumble onto or intentionally select to use one of mine?  Given that I only have ~100 photos online at any one point in time, it just seems highly unlikely.  But you do have a fair point and I hope you get the USB photo thing working.)

Hi again NigelS and thanks for your reply.

Just to let you know that finally I found my error. I didn't copy all the code and reviewing the script I found that I lost the last brace :-(

It was my mistake, but perhaps you could upload the file for some other not having to copy and paste ;-)

Thank again for your work.

PD Have a nice holidays!

Well, Picasa has 3 levels of security:  Public, Unlisted, and Sign-In.

Public allows anyone browsing through Picasa to find your photos.
Unlisted requires someone to know the link to the album in order to view the photos.
Sign-In is the most secure, allowing only the people you invite to see the pictures.

The Chumby Picasa Viewer will work with either the Public or Unlisted settings.  I use the Unlisted setting and just don't tell anyone what the album link is, thus (in theory) nobody should be able to find my album.  The link then gets uploaded to the Chumby widget.

I realize there's always the possibility of being hacked (either through Chumby or Picasa), but the probability of that is fairly low, so I'm happy with the amount of security present.  For me it doesn't really matter anyway, because I use it for photos of landscapes/nature from the places I've been (travel a lot).

Looking at the Picasa API, it looks like it would be possible for the widget to do additional authentication to get to private photo collections.  However right now, it's just using RSS feeds from the site to get pictures.

I'm going to be releasing a drop.io viewer widget soon that does nice things with pictures and supports a true privacy mode -- you can setup a drop so it can't be viewed at all without a guest or admin password, and the widget supports using a password to get to hidden content.