JPG images with VCD slideshow

[loseyourself]

i just purchased a scanner capable of scanning slides and negatives and i want to make slide shows to be viewed on the tv as well as the computer so the pictures can be printed or just for people without a dvd player.....i have made an extra folder on my vcd's for jpg images and my dvd player reads the vcd part of it fine and doesent even look at the JPG folder i made with all the images at a much higher resolution in it.....but to convert the images to JPG takes a long time....is there a converter that will batch encode all my BMP or TIFF images to JPG or even GIF if necessary....thanx

[Timster]

I've used Compupic Pro for a long time now. It does all sorts of batch converting. You can get a free 30 trial at www.photodex.com . Don't know of any freeware. Search at the usual places, tucows, download.com etc.
Tim

[EddyH]

If you get yourself an older "unlimited" shareware version of paint shop pro then it has a handy batch conversion feature where you can set a load of BMPs, etc, converting to JPG while you go off and have a cup of tea or something.. LView or some other similar program may also be up your street.
And unless you're converting technical drawings or something steer FAR clear of GIF files for scanned frames. I've seen the results before and it's not pretty... plus they don't really become small enough compared to the BMPs to make it worth your while. GIFs are large and ugly for photos, whilst JPGs are large and ugly for line drawings, and vice versa.

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Now to threadjack, what is the greatest number of stillframes that a VCD can hold? And if I chunk a few hundred of them into VCDEasy (assuming it takes that many) will it sort out for itself how to make them flow from one to the other? Sorting out the different key settings for a couple thousand pics over a few discs isn't exactly my idea of a good time...

(thinking of; taking my fave graphic novel, snapping each page with my digicam (just as sharp as scanner and not as damaging or slow 8) ) and cutting out each frame or square-ish set of flowing frames as a separate, high rez and fantastically zoomed stillframe, then making a viewable Photo-VCD with it... lovely! Should compress really well as it's all black and white, and often large areas of flat white/black/grey so the maximum pictures thing is a genuine concern, I may very well be able to get 999 inside of 800mb. Easy to carry, easy to view, no need to squint at tiny and over detailed frames, not so susceptible to damage...)

[loseyourself]

i worked out that you can fit 4 large VCD pics in to 1 MB of space (249kb a photo) and then just times 4 by 800 and you will have thousands...but i dont want to put thousands on mine...i want to put a few rolls of filem on (100 or 200 photos) as a VCD but the photos are at a fairly low resolution to be able to print out so i thought that if i convert the BMP files to JPG and put them in a seperate folder on the disc that i can then print out the higer quality pics much easier...and it saves on doubling up on cd's (e.g. 1 for the vcd slide show and another for the jpg files)

[Cornucopia]

VCD 2.0 and SVCD set max segments at 1980, which is no prob spacewise if max pic is ~220kB. Watch out, though, if you put HiRez source pix on the disc too.
If you turned the slideshow into an MPEG video sequence, using a reasonable transition time of 6sec, you end up with ~800 pix on a full disc. Still not bad.

If your max is ~200 pix, you could get HiRez stills, LoRez video, and VeryHiRez source pix all on the same disc--nice for what Ur looking for.

Do a Google search on freeware/shareware photo editors, you'll probably find a bunch, some might do batch.

HTH,
Scott