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74 Chapter 7 : Photos, videos, and music
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).
1 Open Photos & Videos .
2 Tap the album containing the picture, and tap the thumbnail of the
picture.
3 Swipe left or right on the screen to look at other pictures in the
album.
4 To 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.
1 Open Photos & Videos .
2 Tap an album.
3 Tap 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.
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.
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.
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.