question about photo vcd containing a lot of pics

[Nathan]

I have a vcd that contains over 1500 amount of pictures, that I like to put in my standalone DVD Player, and view.

However, what's annoying is that I can only use the "next" and "previous" buttons on my DVD remote to look through the pictures. I don't have the option of using the buttons with numbers.

For example: If I'm looking at pic #1, and I want to look at pic #1000, I'm forced to press the "next" button 1000 times, so that I could see it.

Is there something I can do, so that I could have the numbers option?

I've used Nero and VCDeasy mpeg stills.

[EricB]

Nathan,

If you can get a copy of WinOnCD (a great program until Roxio bought the company and stopped selling the software in the states) it supports albums and default transistion time (say 5 seconds) which can be interrupted to stay on an individual slide. The pictures in the albums are organized into pages, so instead of pressing "Next" 1,000 times, you would go to a specific album, page through thumbnails, then view your picture.

I like WinOnCD because #1: they store the picture file in it's original resolution on the CD, #2: the disk will play the same way on a DVD player, PC, and MAC, #3: you just drag and drop, no resizing or anything, #4 you can put titles on the slide which only show on the screen and don't effect the picture file on the disk.

If you can't "find" this program, I would try Ulead DVD Picture Show.

[Nathan]

Hey thanx.

I tried to get WINONCD, but the only version I could ever obtain is always in some other language. Never english.

I guess I'll try ULEAD.

thanks

[EricB]

Nathan,

There is a guide at http://www.coyote01.freeserve.co.uk/photo_album.htm so you don't need to speak German.

As much as I like Ulead products, I tried DVD PictureShow and was not impressed. With WinOnCD your resulting VCD plays on anything (DVD, PC, MAC) and looks great. The PictureShow disk has deflickering filter which makes the pictures look out of focus on the PC. You can choose to turn it off, but I assume (didn't try it) that the resulting pictures on the TV are not as good!

I never used (or got to work) the sound playing with the WinOnCD but I use the slideshows to look at pictures, not listen to music.

[Nathan]

hey thanks again for the guide. I guess I can put that put away my book on how to speak german.

Too bad I have to download winoncd again..........

thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

[Jess]

Only the help files are in German (in my version anyway WinOnCd 3.8) ..audio works great on the slide shows as well, no problems with that here.

[EricB]

Jess,

Two questions - I tried the audio again last night just out of curiousity. I dragged an mp3 to each album and it listed it as first in the group. During preparation to burn, it showed the process of converting the audio. The resulting VCD would barely play the song (very distorted and crackly) and would not proceed to any pictures. This is on a Pioneer 343.

Second - without the audio, my "Previous" "Next" buttons do not work on multi-page menus. So if I have more than 9 albums, I can't get to the second page. It will sometimes do it if I push the button like 50 times.

If I'm in an album and have several pages of thumbnails, I can't jump between pages. It will play all the images in each album. These also work properly on a software DVD player. Do these functions work properly on your Apex player?

[Nathan]

I've made a couple of photo vcds with music!! this is good software. I find that as long as I burn a CD with only 8 albums at 99 pics per album, then everything works smoothly. If I exceed this, then things start going wrong for some reason.