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On 2012-12-19, Joseph wrote: |
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> Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV? |
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> In the past I've used "dvd-slideshow" but that is a bit of work. I had to re-size the pictures add background music etc. |
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> DVD only holds 4GB USB sticks have larger capacity. |
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It depends a lot on the TVs you want to play the slideshow in. If it's a |
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specific TV, you can just check what does it support. I've seen some LG |
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TVs which were able to browse photos on USB mass storage devices, and |
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they probably had a slideshow feature, although I've never tried that. |
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If you're aiming at broader support, your best chance is really some |
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widely supported set of settings like DVD-Video, because some table DVD |
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players (and TVs too, I guess) will be picky regarding framerate, frame |
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size, codec and other settings. |
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For example, technically you could grab some file container and codec, |
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set the framerate to the time you want between photos and just use the |
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photos as the video frames (I think ffmpeg allows you to do this, but |
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some containers have problems with exotic framerates). But I guess many |
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TV and table DVD players out there would just refuse to play that. |
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One thing, though, is that what only holds ~4GB is *a specific* format |
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of DVD media, there are DVDs with larger capacities, and I'd not be |
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surprised if the size was not restricted at all by the DVD-Video |
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standard (the file format, filesystem structure and codec |
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specifications, not the physical medium specifications). |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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