Reinstall DVD Slideshow GUI

[l8apex]

Can someone please point me to the location of the proper process for reinstalling or updating to the latest version on a Windows 7 OS?

[hech54]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7

[l8apex]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7

My bad...........I meant reinstalling DVD Slideshow GUI onto a computer with a Windows 7 OS.

[redwudz]

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[tin2tin]

http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/download.html

[l8apex]

http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/download.html

That page totally fails to tell me if I must first un-install the components of the original install or if they may be left in place. I'm not a multimedia guy. I'm an MCTS SQL Server Developer. We usually have strict procedures for modifying our systems.

I'm trying to make several slideshow presentations of many generations of familly tree. I'm doing this on behalf of an 88 year-old family member who's got not more than a month to live. It've hit a wall at inserting more than 200 images (I've got a total of 3,500 for both sides of the family). I want to attempt to reinstall to see if the latest version will allow me to exceed this limit. My goal is to try to keep him occupied for periods of an hour or better between pain medications. My son, a composer, has prepared a score for these presentations that is soothing music.

[tin2tin]

It will automatically uninstall the previous version, before a new is installed. In most cases it's not needed to redownload all the additional programs - if you allready installed them.

The max amount of slides is depending on the RAM/hardware of your computer.

Solutions:

• Render your slideshow in parts(of ex. 100 slides) and use ex. MediaJoin(free) to join the resulting mpg's.
• Higher you Virtual RAM.
• Free up some hard disk space.
• Tutorial: Multiple slideshows on a single DVD

[l8apex]

It will automatically uninstall the previous version, before a new is installed. In most cases it's not needed to redownload all the additional programs - if you allready installed them.

The max amount of slides is depending on the RAM/hardware of your computer.

Solutions:

• Render your slideshow in parts(of ex. 100 slides) and use ex. MediaJoin(free) to join the resulting mpg's.
• Higher you Virtual RAM.
• Free up some hard disk space.
• Tutorial: Multiple slideshows on a single DVD

I'm a bit confused about how the max amount of slides is set. The first DVD that I did had 500+ images, the next limited out at 315 and I've not been able to exceed 200 since then.

I've increased Virtual RAM by five-fold to 10GB. I've got 280GB free on the hard drive. All of my storage is really on both of my 1TB external USB drives.

I'll try the merge technique.

Thanks for all of your help.

[tin2tin]

If you hit ctrl+alt+del and select the Joblist - you can follow the usage of RAM.

[l8apex]

If you hit ctrl+alt+del and select the Joblist - you can follow the usage of RAM.

Do you mean tht Performance Monitor in Task Manager?

[tin2tin]

My OS is in danish...

[l8apex]

My OS is in danish...

That is the Performance Monitor in the ENG interface.

When I exceed 200 images, the CPU is maxed-out. Ram never exceeds 70%. It looks like some limit in the encoder is exceeded because it's making a call to the C++ runtime to terminate according to the error dialog message. When it crashes, Muxman and then ImgBurn are sequentially envoked but only write the SOURCE directory to the DVD. The AUDIO and VIDEO content is absent from the DVD.

As a stop-gap, I'm making up 200 image DVD's since the nurse is willing to change them in the DVD playerevery half-hour. I'll then try a merge solution.

[tin2tin]

It's proberly HCenc which has memory problems.

You could try to grab the latest here(it has just been updated):
http://hank315.nl/

And either rename the non-gui version as it is called in the main DVD slideshow GUI folder or change the path in DVD slideshow GUI > Slideshow > External Applications > HCencoder.

BTW. you don not have to burn a disk to see if the export is succesful - there are multiple other mpg formats to export to - or even .iso and use DAEMON Tools Lite - free for personal use - to run that .iso for testing in at virtual dvd-drive.

[l8apex]

It's proberly HCenc which has memory problems.

You could try to grab the latest here(it has just been updated):
http://hank315.nl/

And either rename the non-gui version as it is called in the main DVD slideshow GUI folder or change the path in DVD slideshow GUI > Slideshow > External Applications > HCencoder.

BTW. you don not have to burn a disk to see if the export is succesful - there are multiple other mpg formats to export to - or even .iso and use DAEMON Tools Lite - free for personal use - to run that .iso for testing in at virtual dvd-drive.

I think that you are very right about HCenc. I'll try the update straight away.

Interestingly enough, I did uncheck the "Delete ISO" option in ImgBurn and then mounted the DVDsGUIBurntemp.iso to Daemon Tools to the single virtual drive that I keep available when I made my very first slideshow. Media Player would not run the DVD and gave me the message that it was unable to run the DVD in my region of the world. I burned the DVD anyway and it ran just fine in 720p/16:9/NTSC. I also now copy and rename/date the DVDsGUIBurntemp.iso for each show to keep an archive. In this way, I may avoid needing the .dsg file if I want another simple DVD.

Further to that, I later mounted one of the archive .iso files to view the images in the source directory and it automatically envoked and played in Media Player. I retried the original and it still gave me the same "region" error message. Sound strange to you?

[tin2tin]

720p is not for DVD, but for BluRay.

Use one of the first four options in the Project Settings window for DVDs.

The 2. or the 4. for NTSC.

5. -> 8. for BluRay - which are not playable on DVD players.

If you're planning to use Mediajoin or something like that to turn more slideshows into on big slideshow then the .iso(authored dvd) file will be useless - export instead to mpg(video file), media-join and use Gui for dvdauthor, DVDauthor GUI or DVD styler to author the dvd.

Some of those authoring programs might need a demuxed mpg - look under the tools section to find a demuxer to seperate video(m2v) from audio(ac3).

Gui for dvdauthor - has a 'Play All' function, so more separate clips can be played one after another without interferrence.

[l8apex]

720p is not for DVD, but for BluRay.

Use one of the first four options in the Project Settings window for DVDs.

The 2. or the 4. for NTSC.

5. -> 8. for BluRay - which are not playable on DVD players.

If you're planning to use Mediajoin or something like that to turn more slideshows into on big slideshow then the .iso(authored dvd) file will be useless - export instead to mpg(video file), media-join and use Gui for dvdauthor, DVDauthor GUI or DVD styler to author the dvd.

Some of those authoring programs might need a demuxed mpg - look under the tools section to find a demuxer to seperate video(m2v) from audio(ac3).

Gui for dvdauthor - has a 'Play All' function, so more separate clips can be played one after another without interferrence.

My bad. Sorry. I was using the 4th option and not the BlueRay. I misstated my actions.