Manual DVD Slideshow with continous audio

[jebbrown]

I'm trying to create a DVD slideshow to run on a stand-alone DVD player so I can view it on TV. So far I've tried 38 slide-show programs and none seem to be able to do what I want (except perhaps Nero Photoshow Deluxe 4, though I can't burn to DVD in the demo so I can't verify it).

What I'd like it to do is to be able to advance the slides without causing the background music to skip ahead, and I don't want specific songs tied to specific photos. I just want the music to play in the background uninterrupted while I peruse the photos. I don't know enough about DVD-Authoring to be sure this is possible, though I swear I've seen this on commercial DVDs in the extras.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

[mats.hogberg]

I'm pretty certain what you want is not possible within the restrictions of a Video DVD specifications.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

I don't believe it can be done on a DVD, the specs just don't allow for it. I suspect that what you have seen is clever use of audio, so when it does break it isn't as noticable. Certainly, the most common method for user interactive slideshows - menus - won't allow it. There might be a way to do it with clever VM commands, but I cannot see how.

[jtoolman2000]

Nope! Can't be done. Look at it this way> Can you skip a DVD movie and not have the audio track also skip? Your slide show is a video containing both visual and audio info. They are locked together and so one cannot be advanced without also advancing the other.

[mattso]

Just play a tape while your watching the slideshow!