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| bosun_bird |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 02:36:44
I have just bought DVD PixPlay. I really like the Preview slideshow feature as I project my photos through a computer projector onto a screen but occasionally cut a CD or DVD if I am travelling light. Using the Preview feature maintains the quality (you lose quality/resolution burning a DVD and it takes a long time too for a long slideshow).
Is there anyway I can pause the preview if I need to talk more about a particular slide? You can't always tell how long to set the Display time for. |
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| xequte |
Posted - Jan 16 2009 : 16:12:35
Hi
1. You can only choose manual or automatic. In manual it will only move when you click the relevant button or key.
2. I can't see any reason why videos would play differently in that situation. I think there must be something else about the slideshows that mean the video is not showing.
This is a typical symptom of MJPEG AVI videos (from digital cameras) if you not have the relevant codec. Windows can play the audio of the file, but does not understand the video encoding.
3. That comment relates to slideshows encoded as videos (i.e. in DVD movie or VCD format). We won't be able to resolve that until we redo the way that DVD PixPlay handles audio.
Nigel
Xequte Software
nigel@xequte.com |
| bosun_bird |
Posted - Jan 16 2009 : 06:18:51
Hi Nigel,
Thanks. I tried the Image option and it stops after a short time. On the forum another person had the same problem and you suggested using the Combined DVD and Image option. I did this and yes it works – in fact to save time I Cancelled the process as soon as I saw the message Total input frames (in other words when it starts doing its DVD stuff but has finished the image stuff).
Just a few questions on the Image option:
1. it seems as though if you use the keyboard (or mouse) to navigate you can’t have it move automatically through the slides and only stop/pause/back/forward when you want?
2. If I chose the automatic option (no mouse/keyboard) on my video clips (AVIs) I get sound but no picture. If I chose the mouse or keyboard option everything is fine. I tested this on 2 test slideshows. FYI to get the video clips to show properly in the Preview slideshow I had to download the MPEG-2 codecs as described in the Video Clips topic. If I downloaded the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack it didn’t work but when I downloaded the free-codecs codec everything was fine (I uninstalled the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack first). Any ideas?
One more question… I read in the same Video Clips topic ‘Presently DVD PixPlay can only use the sound track of the videos in a slideshow if there are no images except after the final video’. This seems to be true whether you have background music or not. Am I right?
Also any ideas when you’ll fix this limitation – you say in the Topic it will be in a coming update?
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| xequte |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 13:56:24
Hi
If you are burning disks for playback on a PC (rather than a DVD player) you don't need to lose quality. Simply choose the "Image" format slideshow option. This will give you the same output as previewing slideshow.
Also if you do this you can optionally include a navigation toolbar.
(Tip: Output it to your HDD rather than a disk if you only want to playback on your computer).
Nigel
Xequte Software
nigel@xequte.com |
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