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[Mastiff]

My wife would like to send some of the children pictures to her mother so she can watch it on her DVD player. No computer within a few miles there... Is there such a possibility in MC, or can anybody suggest a cheap (preferably free, I don't want to spend more than I have to on that woman! (believe me, all those mother in law jokes were made for my mother in law!)) program I can use for that?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Phil Lee]

I have used Adobe Photoshop Album 2 to do that. There is a free, limited capability version of PSA2 available to download at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html if you want to try before you buy. Unfortunately the free version doesn't have the capability to create Video CD's.

[DJMUK]

The trial version at the following may be of use if the DVD player can read Video-CD format:

http://www.jasc.com/products/photoalbum/

I hope you wife can't get at this forum or you will be in BIG trouble!

David

[Mastiff]

I'm not sure it can read video CD, which is why I'm looking for something DVD compatible. And the chance of my wife reading anything on the Net except for a few norwegian newspapers are about the same as for a politician to take a vow of silence...

[DJMUK]

Knowing that it must be DVD format I see from my copy of Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 that it has an application called DVD Builder.  I have not tried it but from the tutorial/help file it appears it will do the job.  It's costs about £40 direct from Roxio.  Link below:

http://www.roxio.co.uk/products/ecdc/features.jhtml

Hope this is more use than my first suggestion earlier today!

David

[Robert Taylor]

If you have a DVD burner, what software do you use for burning? If it's Nero, it can create VCD's or DVD's full of pics easily...

[Wobbley]

Mastiff,

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but a really cool program for doing what you want (and more I think) is called Muvee Autoproducer.  It can do some really cool stuff with a group of pictures and an audio file (or two, or three, etc.).  You can find it at http://www.muvee.com/website/ap3.php.

On the site, it says this:

Save your videos (DV, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1 or MPEG-2):
Post your muvee productions on the Web, share them via e-mail, export them back to your camcorder, or save them as VCD-/SVCD-/DVD-ready files.

I've used it several times and it has really impressed me given the amount of user input it requires.

Hope that helps.

Wobbley

[Mastiff]

Thanks, I'll check that. I do use Nero, but I tried burning a DVD compatible collection there, and it didn't work. I will try again, though.

[Nolonemo]

Hey Mastiff, just try burning a VCD.  The resolution for stills is the same as with DVDs (if you add transitions to a VCD slideshow, however, the resolution will drop to VCD video resolution).  I think these days virutally every DVD player will play VCDs.  And if it doesn't work, you will have the pleasure of having aggravated your mother-in-law!  

[Mastiff]

Now that's about the best suggestion I've seen in a few years (the one about aggravating my mother-in-law!, that is!).  

[JimH]

I just found an interesting standard.  It's called MPV and allows music, photo, and video files to be written to disks that can be played by _some_new_ DVD players.  Here's a link:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030311c.html