digital photographs into which slideshow software

[bonscott]

hi

Newbie here and wondering which is the best and possible free software package to use here for the job?

Im taking digital photographs of my son from a PC into a slideshow on TV as DVD. Thing is that as the photos are in categories..eg....in the bath, at xmas, in his highchair etc I want a seperate slideshow in lots of seperate menus which are in the DVD menu driven.
Ive tried NERO and STUDIO but they dont seem to do what I want and are really giving me one huge slideshow when I want loads little slideshows under different menus.
Can someone who has done this or who know about this point me to which software is best to use?
thanks
david

[Jeremiah58]

General info:
Here is a list of tools:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/photo-dvd-vcd

A topic about DVD slideshow GUI:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071.html?highlight=slideshow

There is another good tool DVDsanta, which is not listed under this section.
Since you want to create a menu, you would probably need a DVD authoring tool, as well.

[bonscott]

thanks..starting to use DVD slideshowGUI, but I have some qs to begin with

1. When I watch a preview in Media Player Clasic, I am told that:

Media Player Classic could not render some of the pins in the graph, you may not have the needed codecs or filters installed in the system.

It then states:
C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDsGUItemp.avs::Avisynth video #1

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Video: YV12 720x576 25.00fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12 {32315659-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 622080
cbFormat: 88

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 0
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 400000

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 720
biHeight: 576
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 12
biCompression: YV12
biSizeImage: 622080
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 06 00 00 00 00 00 ........€.......
0030: 28 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00 40 02 00 00 01 00 0c 00 (...Ð...@.......
0040: 59 56 31 32 00 7e 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 YV12.~..........
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

There then appears a buton saying look for codecs on the net. I hit that button and I get DONE with a blank screen. Can you point me t the codecs required here. Thanks.

2. Can I not take complete folders of gifs into this program, which are already sorted into seperate folders in explorer, I dont want to have to do this again. I could then take in complete folers and the images below would then be in their own chapter for me to create a seperate menu for each.

thanks

david

[tin2tin]

Did you install the included avisynth?

[bonscott]

yes it is installed thanks

Dont you just hate when you type 'free' into a search engine and it turns out be a 30 day trial and also only x10 photographs? Thats why getting this working will be a huge gain.
d

[tin2tin]

Try to install FFDshow and under video decoder configuration, make sure that the avisynth isn't disabled, but set to 'avisynth'.