making a slide show on a dvd

[photoman]

I am thinking about purchasing the HP unit for my computer and want to know if it is possible to somehow put photos onto the disc and be able to do a slide show. The main thing is that I want the show to do is not stay up for a certain amount of time, but to keep them up as long as I want then go to the next one. Is it possible to make each slide a chapter and use the pause to keep the slide up and then use the "next" to go to the next slide?? Anyone out there know the answer to this??

[kon]

1. Iam sure you know, but I will ask anyway - isnt a vcd-slideshow (that plays on most dvd standalone) enough? do you have that many photos they dont fit onto one cd?

I have found the winoncd photoalbum is great beacuse it lets you define an infinte display time per image. It also automaticaly produces a 'contact sheet' page which you can browse through instead of the full screen images, allowing you to 'zoom' into full screen when u want to (extremly helpful when u r looking for the 113th photo out of 250)

2. DVD:You hit the nail on the head with the infinte playing time per image. The easiest way I know to do a DVD slide show on a pc is using roxio videopack5 - drag as many images as you need into a predifned 'elment' (baiscly a container) and they are idenfied by the app as 'slide show' you can now set the playing time for each slide(from 1 to 100 sec). Sadly there is no option for infinte (like there is in winoncd ). However the app does treat each image like a chapter so you can skip back and forward. If you set the display time for ~25 sec you will probably wont notice the 'slideshow' effect. If needed you can pause. Of course all this does is turn each image into a 25sec mpeg2 video, which if you have lots of images can be a size problem even on dvd. An alterntaive would be to define an individual elemnet for each image and then set the playing time for just one second, next you can set a pause of up to 100 sec between each element, the snag with this is that its ALOT of work defining so many paremeters maually.

I have heared that Sonic Reel Dvd does slideshows and stillshows.