Posted by tdp1001 on 01/10/55 11:36

"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > On a sunny day (Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:01:58 GMT) it happened "hanson"
> > <hanson@quick.net> wrote in <WjSuf.2450$QI6.26@trnddc07>:
> >>== Microsoft PhotoStory ONLY accepts 300 pixs per session/folder.
> >> Is there any program which fills **directly** without frills,
> >> **any** amount of jpg and or bmp (4000+ pix)
> >> onto a DVD disc (till full) that can be played on *TV" via a
> >> DVD player?
> >
> [Jan]
> > Many DVD players can play .jpg pictures,
> > my CyberHome CH-DVD 405 can, and it is few years old.
> > Here are the steps:
> > 1)
> > Install Linux (it is free) from
> > http://www.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
> >
> > 2)
> > Put your jpg and bmp in a directory, or directory tree at say 'your_directory'.
> >
> > 3)
> > Install ImageMagic and convert any bmp to jpg with for example 'convert', type
> > convert *.bmp *.jpg
> >
> > 4)
> > Install mkisofs and make a DVD image by typing the magic words:
> > mkisofs -P Hanson -p Hanson_Productions -J -r -o dvd_image your_directory
> >
> > 5)
> > Use growisofs to burn the DVD image, by typing the secret formula:
> > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=dvd_image
> >
> > 6)
> > Stick DVD in player, it should present you with a menu.
> >
> > Money spend: 0$
> > Time spend: well.
> >
> > And as a side effect, no more WMA infections,
> > no more worms virusses, MS updates.
> >
> [hanson]
> Thanks Jan. Cool, if and when I should decide to go Linux.
> Meanwhile, how about some MS-XP program that does accept
> an unlimited amount of jpg and or bmp pix from the computer HD
> and fills DVD-R's full, prompts for the next empty DVD disk till
> source on the HD is exhausted etc.... such that these full DVD's
> then can be played on a DVD player that is hooked to the TV,
> and can be played as an **automatic slideshow** with adjustable
> presentation time (without clicking from pix to pix)?
> Thanks, hanson

I discarded my DVD player and use a small PC
connected to my large screen TV to play DVDs, etc.
I use a wireless mouse to control things.

The main reason that I use a PC rather than a DVD player,
is that I have many disks with audio and video in many formats
such as VCD, DVD, RM, WMV, MOV, MPEG, MP3, etc.,
and I can play all of them with the computer.

For example, I have many disks
which hold 20 or so old movies each in various RM formats,
(Charley Chaplin, Shirley Temple, etc. ),
and this saves converting them to other formats,
and reburning them.

Media Player Classic seems to have all of the
necessary CODECs to play all of the formats,
and even Real Player can't play all of their own formats.

With this scheme,
you can fill up a disk with pictures,
( Or view the pictures from directly from a hard drive.)
and use any slideshow player to view the pictures.

I might mention that I use Picasa to
scan through, select, and assemble a batch of pictures
to work with. ( Make a video, or email somone pictures.)

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Tom Potter
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