TV and DVD Slide Show

Jerry Brock · Jul 13, 2002

One of my hobbies is creating digital photo albums to share with my family using my Canon G-2. The problem is that not everyone has a computer. I’m searching for a way to create slide shows that will show on a TV and DVD player combo, preferably from a CD-R as opposed to an actual DVD ($$s). I would like to be able to manage the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and if so, how?

Jerry

Randy Olson · Jul 13, 2002

What you want to do is make a Video Compact Disk or VCD. Most DVD players can view VCDs. A VCD can be burned on a standard CD-R. How you do that with a Mac I do not know. I do mine with a PC and Ulead's DVD Picture Show.

I am not sure what Iphoto allows you to do. Maybe some other Mac person can tell you. You can also try this link: http://www.vcdhelp.com/author.htm

Randy

Jerry Brock said:
One of my hobbies is creating digital photo albums to share with my
family using my Canon G-2. The problem is that not everyone has a
computer. I’m searching for a way to create slide shows that will
show on a TV and DVD player combo, preferably from a CD-R as
opposed to an actual DVD ($$s). I would like to be able to manage
the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner
is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and
if so, how?

Jerry

Stephen Kovac Jr · Jul 14, 2002

DVD PhotoPlay from VCOM is the one that I am using to create VCD to show my pictures on a regular low cost CD-RW media on my Sony DVD player. DVD PhotoPlay claim that they can get 500 photos on one CD-RW media. I am only placing 200 photos on one CD-RW media right now. My Sony DVD player does not work with CD-R media, that is the reason that I am using CD-RW media. My Sony DVD player is about 2 years old. I believe on newer models, CD-R can be use. I can add music to the slide show if I wanted to.

http://www.v-com.com/product/dp_ind.html

Ulead sells a similar product call DVD PictureShow and there are others out there too. Go to ulead web site to learn about their DVD PictureShow.

http://www.ulead.com

Stephen

Jerry Brock said:
One of my hobbies is creating digital photo albums to share with my
family using my Canon G-2. The problem is that not everyone has a
computer. I’m searching for a way to create slide shows that will
show on a TV and DVD player combo, preferably from a CD-R as
opposed to an actual DVD ($$s). I would like to be able to manage
the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner
is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and
if so, how?

Jerry

Huckleberry · Jul 14, 2002

Excellent tips -- thank you

Ron

Stephen Kovac Jr said:
http://www.v-com.com/product/dp_ind.html

Ulead sells a similar product call DVD PictureShow and there are
others out there too. Go to ulead web site to learn about their DVD
PictureShow.

http://www.ulead.com

Stephen

Jerry Brock said:

One of my hobbies is creating digital photo albums to share with my
family using my Canon G-2. The problem is that not everyone has a
computer. I’m searching for a way to create slide shows that will
show on a TV and DVD player combo, preferably from a CD-R as
opposed to an actual DVD ($$s). I would like to be able to manage
the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner
is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and
if so, how?

Jerry

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Ron

going_digital · Jul 14, 2002

I have tried vcd, MPEG-1 format, and they look fine on most TV's. However, the newer pure-flat TV's are using computer monitor technology on larger screen sizes, and MPEG-1 doesn't do the photo's justice (352x240 pixel resolution).

MPEG-2 would be better, but VCD format doesn't include any MPEG-2 standards. There is an XVCD format that provides the same resolution as MPEG-2 (MPEG-1 740x480), and which Sony's newer players (as well as all Sharp DVD players) support. The images look as good as the TV can display and show the image better. Because photos are still images, image sharpness is a much bigger deal than with motion pictures which distract the eyes with action and movement. You want to get as much screen resolution as the TV can show. Unfortunately, not every DVD player supports XVCD, and you have to jump through hoops to encode into XVCD resolution MPEG-1.

Tom C11968 · Jul 15, 2002

I just bought a Magnavox DVD player from Best Buy for $75 that will also run a slideshow from a CD-R in JPG format.. It will let you control brightness, contrast, flip the photos saturation and zoom in on the photo. The model is MDV450. It also plays audio, super video CD-RW and mp3-CD’s.

Tom

Jerry Brock said:
One of my hobbies is creating digital photo albums to share with my
family using my Canon G-2. The problem is that not everyone has a
computer. I’m searching for a way to create slide shows that will
show on a TV and DVD player combo, preferably from a CD-R as
opposed to an actual DVD ($$s). I would like to be able to manage
the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner
is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and
if so, how?

Jerry

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Tom

Doug D. · Jul 15, 2002

I've found the best way to make a VCD from a Mac is to make a Qicktime movie with Iview media, you can include music. Then burn it to a CDRW (they work better and on more DVD players than a CDR) using Toast. It works great.
Good luck,

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Doug D.
'Promise a rainbow, and someone will look to the sky.'
http://www.pbase.com/doug_d
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=1681338

Kok Chen · Jul 15, 2002

Jerry Brock said:
I would like to be able to manage
the viewing as I would with Iphoto on my G4 Mac or my PC (my burner
is on my Mac). Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and
if so, how?

VideoCD is supported by Roxio's Toast Titanium. Make a Quicktime file, drop the file into Toast (in the "Other Data" panel). Make sure you have Toast's VideoCD extension installed.

Digital photographs can be made into a slide show for playing on a DVD player by burning using Apple's iDVD 2.0 application. Equally painless, simply drag JPEGs into the iDVD project.

Bear in mind that VideoCD is MPEG-1 encoded into a pretty low resolution format (352x240 for NTSC, 352x288 for PAL) whereas DVD is MPEG-2 at up to 720x480 for NTSC, and 720x576 for PAL. Big difference in image quality.

See http://docs.info.apple.com/article2.html?artnum=34551 regarding how images are rescaled to the DVD format by iDVD 2.0.

Many sources, such as MeritLine has DVD-R discs for below $1.50 a disc now. Of course, you also need a Mac with a DVD-R burner.

kc

Barry Hood · Jul 15, 2002

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Ulead's DVD Picture Show.

http://www.ulead.com/dps/features.htm

Up to 99 pics in up to 99 galleries.
VCD 2.0 format plays on most DVD players.

Very easy to use and gives surprisingly good results.

steve6 · Jul 16, 2002

Interesting stuff, who makes the software for XVCD picture shows?

Steve

going_digital said:
I have tried vcd, MPEG-1 format, and they look fine on most TV's.
However, the newer pure-flat TV's are using computer monitor
technology on larger screen sizes, and MPEG-1 doesn't do the
photo's justice (352x240 pixel resolution).

MPEG-2 would be better, but VCD format doesn't include any MPEG-2
standards. There is an XVCD format that provides the same
resolution as MPEG-2 (MPEG-1 740x480), and which Sony's newer
players (as well as all Sharp DVD players) support. The images look
as good as the TV can display and show the image better. Because
photos are still images, image sharpness is a much bigger deal than
with motion pictures which distract the eyes with action and
movement. You want to get as much screen resolution as the TV can
show. Unfortunately, not every DVD player supports XVCD, and you
have to jump through hoops to encode into XVCD resolution MPEG-1.

DougT · Jul 16, 2002

Tom,

I went on Best Buy's website and it is listed for $99. Did you have a rebate or something. Still seems like a good buy. Also it doesn't say it plays JPG format, are you sure?

DougT

Tom C said:
I just bought a Magnavox DVD player from Best Buy for $75 that will
also run a slideshow from a CD-R in JPG format.. It will let you
control brightness, contrast, flip the photos saturation and zoom
in on the photo. The model is MDV450. It also plays audio, super
video CD-RW and mp3-CD’s.

Doug D. · Jul 16, 2002

Because he is using a Mac.
--
Doug D.
'Promise a rainbow, and someone will look to the sky.'
http://www.pbase.com/doug_d
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=1681338

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