Finally got around to uploading a custom Crossfire wallpaper/background to my head unit. I think it looks pretty decent. I have a few other wallpapers that I'm working on making fit. The problem is finding a large enough picture that fits the dimensions.

 

Looks good!

 

Pretty sweet!

What are the image specs?

 

No complaints here! Keep up the good work.

 

Thank you, thank you.

The pic is 668x127. It was originally larger, but I trimmed it down to keep the same aspect ration as the display of the head unit.

I have a few more images that I'm trying to make work. I'll post more pics if I can get them to look decent enough.

 

Just playing around.......

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Edit: The Crossfire badge I think everyone will recognize as the badges that were sold by H82BL8.

 

Thats awesome!!

 

Very cool!

 

I'll give that a try today. It can store up to 4 wallpapers at a time so I can switch back and forth between them.

 

Here is another one I threw together using the new Chrysler logo

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I do like those new logos... Someone must own photoshop, haha. I'm still kicking myself in the *** for not getting a free copy when I had the chance to a while ago.

 

And, a bit bored. LOL Actually, it is a program called Pixelmator for Mac. It is very similar to Photoshop, but better in many ways. The menus are almost the same between the two.

 

Not surprising, Mac's always have had the upper hand in those areas it seems. I can't imagine how much it costs.

 

Well, that is the great part about Mac's..... Software is usually so much cheaper than it is for a PC. Pixelmator is actually only $59. Pixelmator

I have used Photoshop at work for the past 11+ years, and I actually prefer Pixelmator.

 

Damn, sounds like I need to switch to Mac... 59 bucks definitely beats the 600 or so for Photoshop.

I'd probably spend all day playing around with it, though, so maybe I shouldn't, haha.

 

I have the same unit. How did you get it on the radio as a wallpaper?

 

For some reason JVC went about it a little bit backwards compared to how most other head units work with custom backgrounds. Instead of doing a simple upload to the unit you have to do the following:

1. Select desired image on your computer and crop it to proper aspect ratio or as close to it as you can get. The KD-AVX77 has a 800x240 display.

2. Upload image to a flash drive or burn it to a DVD-R

3. Connect flash drive to the adapter cable (or if you don't have the adapter cable, that is when you could use the DVD, instead.)

4. Play image/DVD so that the desired image is displayed on the screen and then press pause

5. Press the "Quick Menu" button

6. Press the "User Capture" button on the lower left portion of the quick menu. The icon has a camera and a representation of the head unit together.

7. Press "Back" menu button to select either normal or zoom image mode

8. Press desired image preset number; you can select 1-4 as it can only store up to 4 images.

Once you have stored more than one image, you can switch between them by using the main A/V Settings menu.

You don't necessarily have to crop the images that you want to use as a wallpaper, but they won't display very well if they aren't fairly close to the native aspect ratio of the unit.

 

Here are the 2 raw images that I have used so far that look decent displayed on the unit. High-res, close up images tend to work best because when the unit stores them as a wallpaper, it automatically reduces the file size, so when it is actually displayed as a wallpaper, the image is more pixelated than the raw image. So, the higher the resolution of the original image and the larger it is, the better it ends up looking as a wallpaper. Unfortunately, there is no way of stopping the unit from compacting the file to keep full resolution.

 

Is there any way you could send me those files?

 

Sure thing, what's your email?