JPEG's on DVD

[mushl]

Hello!

I'm new to DVD and "authoring". Have a new Panasonic S-35, which seems to work fine. I would like to display JPEG's (like a picture show), without creating a VCD.

The S-35 opens the folder of JPEGs and begins to display them, BUT it shows them in a sort of "slow scan", i.e. the image scans slowly from top to bottom. I'm using a standard TV.

Is there, perhaps, some setting on the DVD which would allow the images to simply "appear" as they would on a PC??

Thanks in advance....

Jane

[CogoSWSDS]

Don't know if there's a setting to make the DVD player just make the JPGs "appear". I assume you're just burning the .jpg files into a folder on the DVD? If so I'm surprised that your player is playing them, as I didn't know there were any DVD players that could play a bunch of jpegs burned into a folder.

VCDEasy is a nice GUI for creating Video CDs. If your DVD player supports MPEG stills, you might be able to use VCDEasy to create the MPEG stills from your jpegs. After downloading VCDEasy from http://www.vcdeasy.org and installing it, Start VCDEasy, click on "Tools" then on "MPEG Tools". Load and convert your .jpg images one at a time, and then author and burn these to DVD as usual. I don't think you'll get sound this way though.

Another way would be to take your jpegs and a .wav file containing the sound you want to use and loading them into Slide Show Movie Maker (SSMM), available from http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools. This package is freeware and very useful (Baldrick, can we add this to the Tools section?) for making an avi from jpeg files and a wav file. Once the avi is created, encode, author and burn it to DVD as usual...

CogoSWSDS

[MOVIEGEEK]

Very few DVD players will play raw .jpeg on DVD,I recommend PictureShow:
www.ulead.com/dps/runme.htm

[SaSi]

Actually, several DVD players come out claiming to be able to reproduce jpeg on CD and DVD. Several actually do a good job at it.

Here is my experience with the yamakawa 215.

It can show jpeg images, in slideshows, well almost.

I have found out that out of a CD with several folders with jpg files, the player can see all folders but can jump into only a few of them (the few first folders). Trying to enter the rest results in going back to the root.

Images are shown slowly scanning down the screen if they are large. 720x576 images show up almost in an instant. Scanned frames at 2500x1700 take a lot because the player is downsampling them to fit on the screen. Just like a slow PC would do slowly.

The yamakawa also plays jpgs on DVD, but again, part of the disk files are accesible.

I would be interested to know if other players can show all the folders and all the images.

[tobee]

You can try Photo2VCD Professional from http://www.photo2vcd.com. Very easy to use and the result is impressed.

-Jobee

[Megahurts]

The Apex AD1200 will display jpegs in the twinkling of an eye or maybe two eyes.

Chas

[Gritz]

Another great piece of software for creating slideshows (IMHO) is Picture2TV, which contrary to what this site states, does create SVCD pictures. You can create selectable folders, add appropriate music, and both background pictures and music for the menu. You can put about 650 pictures on one CD-R, albeit taking about 8-10 hours (overnight for me) to do it. No need to convert your tiff or bmp files as the conversion process takes care of all that. Both my Apex 3201 and my Pioneer DV 250 play the SVCD pictures .... but another Samsung I had did not. Best to check first if you're buying one. A good alternate to DVD-R if your player will read the CD-Rs (and cheaper). I have 55 years of pictures now all on disks! Unfortunately there were no digital cameras when most of the pictures were take! Cost for the software is about $50 as I remember.

[mushl]

Thank you, one and all; your replies are very helpful. Actually, you got to the heart of the matter, i.e. I'm trying to decide appropriate "format" and "resolution" for the scanning of THOUSANDS of slides. Thought it best to try to decide what "end" product I wanted first.

Think I've now decided to scan at a "high" setting for archive purposes, then use "something" to create (quickly/easily) SVCD's?? for "showing". Or hopefully just JPEGs (of appropriate size)??

My, there's a LOT to all this!! Thanks, again!

Jane

[Gritz]

Jane,
You might want to check out Wayne Fulton's Scantips at http://www.scantips.com/ He has an excellent guide that explains the proper resolution to scan at for the project you are doing. It could save you much tons of hard drive space as most people scan at a higher resolution than they will ever use. For example .... for viewing on a televison an appropriate scan would be to scan your pictures to cover the entire tv screen, or 800X600 ...... anything greater is wasted. 800x600 is not the "exact" size ... but close enough. If your pictures are 3" x 4" then the perfect scan is 200 dpi. 3" x 200 dpi comes out to 600, and 4" x 200 dpi comes out to 800. Scanning for printing is not the same as scanning for viewing on a tv ........... as his guide and book explains. Anyway ..... good luck.

[gk]

I need to know why there are frequent references to digital images having a 4X3 aspect ratio. Did early digital cameras provide this "shape" ?

Our Kodak cameras provide 3x2 format JPEGs, exactly the same as a 35 mm camera negative (36 x 24 mm image).

Scanning slides or negatives will likewise result in this aspect ratio.

I recognize that in conventional photo-printing, such images/negatives are always cropped. Nevertheless, a common print size is now 4 X 6" borderless.

The point is that importing such 3 x 2 images into several VCD-making programs including VCDEasy and Nero 5.5 results in distorted on-screen views.

GK

[Craig Tucker]

My Akura 142s DVD player, plays jpegs flawlessly, and it will play them as a slideshow. With this player you can even choose the transition effect, one of which is wipe from top to bottom. Its a long shot but maybe you have a transition effect selected on your player and don't even know it.