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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. 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.
You can use any picture that is stored on your device as wallpaper (see
Change your wallpaper). The picture does not have to be in the
Wallpapers album.
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 XXX.
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.
Table 3. Picture and video locations
Origin of pictures or
videos
Album in Photos &
videos
Folder in USB storage
Email Downloads downloads
Copied from computer Miscellaneous Root level of USB
storage
Device Screen captures screencaptures
Device Wallpapers wallpapers
Online account Folder downloaded
from the online
account
Not available in USB
storage
Copied from another
album in Photos &
Videos
Album created by you
in Photos & Videos
Album created by you
in Photos & Videos
Copied from
elsewhere
[Folder created by you
in USB storage]
[Folder created by you
containing at least
one BMP, JPG, PNG,
or MP4]
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