Pictures in screen saver

i am using my pictures to create a screen saver. is there a way to adjust the timing between when each photo appears to make it shorter or longer?

My apologies for not being clear enough.
Let me rephrase the question. Imagine you take the ATV2 out of the box, plug it to the power and the TV (no network) and wait - screen saver kicks in. It displays photos someone at Apple decided to include in the software loaded into the ATV2 unit.
I would like to know if there is a way to replace those pictures with images I selected.
So again, I am not asking how to display pictures stored on external repository. I am asking if it is possible to REPLACE existing, standard, Apple-chosen pictures that come with ATV2 software, with different ones.
Hope that clears the confusion

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