DVD PLAYER FOR JPEG

[ashforth]

I am looking for a DVD player that can show JPEG files on a TV monitor that can be used as a slide projector. My current DVD player will show the photos, but only with a preset auto advance. "Hands-on" intervention is unsupported.

I would like a unit that will display a slide and hold it until the next slide is advanced with the remote control. Does such a unit exist?

Thanks for your assitance.

Herb

[clos]

Not sure but you can burn slideshows to DVD with a DVD burner and ULEAD Movie Factory to get the desired result with most DVD player.

If you already have a DVD player buy a DVD burner instead of a new DVD player.

Good luck!

-Carlos

[BCdives]

Hey ASH,

Don't really know exactly what you are trying to accomplish, BUT, if you get a copy of Sonic DVDit publishing software you can take a string of jpegs (combined with video and music if you wish) and actually publish it to DVD(NTSC), then it will play in almost any set top DVD player in the USA

(unless you publish it is PAL for europe)

Just food for thought!

BC

[clos]

Hey thats what I said.

BCD Drive, your parrot signature seems appropriate. LOL

-Clos

[BCdives]

Dooooh!

What clos said!

lol

BC

[ashforth]

Thanks for the suggestions. I currently own and use Nero, Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, Roxio's Win-on CD 5 Power Edition, FlipAlbum 5 Suite and Adobe Photoshop Album. Most will produce a good CD album that works great on my PC; FlipAlbum being the best, but doesn't do what I want on the TV as explained below.

I bought a DVD player for my large screen TV which has the ability to show JPEG files. Unfortunately, to show JPEG's on the TV, these programs convert the files to a movie-like format. The slide show works, but the user has no control over the show other than to select a predetermined time period between photos. In effect, you're producing a movie that contains still shots that advance from slide to slide at a preset interval and you have no way to vary that interval once the CD is burned.

My hope is to find a DVD player that will allow the user to use the remore control to advance the slides as he/she determines at the time of viewing- sort of an electronic Kodak Carosel..... you press the button and the next slide loads.

Has anybody found such a machine?

Thanks,
Herb

[PacAce]

ashforth wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I currently own and use Nero, Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, Roxio's Win-on CD 5 Power Edition, FlipAlbum 5 Suite and Adobe Photoshop Album. Most will produce a good CD album that works great on my PC; FlipAlbum being the best, but doesn't do what I want on the TV as explained below.

I bought a DVD player for my large screen TV which has the ability to show JPEG files. Unfortunately, to show JPEG's on the TV, these programs convert the files to a movie-like format. The slide show works, but the user has no control over the show other than to select a predetermined time period between photos. In effect, you're producing a movie that contains still shots that advance from slide to slide at a preset interval and you have no way to vary that interval once the CD is burned.

My hope is to find a DVD player that will allow the user to use the remore control to advance the slides as he/she determines at the time of viewing- sort of an electronic Kodak Carosel..... you press the button and the next slide loads.

Has anybody found such a machine?

Thanks,
Herb


I'm not sure if this unit will do what you want but it might be worth looking into:

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?storeId=11251&catalogId=11005&itemId=63377&catGroupId=11059&modelNo=DVD-F85K&surfModel=DVD-F85K

[ilya]

I actually have what you're looking for - Panasonic DVD Video Recorder Model No. DMR-HS2. Do a search on Google.

It has a PC Card slot which is compatible with all popular memory sticks. Get it in, use the remote, do a slideshow, all that jazz.
It also plays DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, music CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and JPEG image CDs
Has built-in 40 GB hard drive, IEEE 1394
Record on single-sided DVD-RAM discs

Tell you the truth, I don't suggest you get it. First, its pricy - about $1000. I got it when I was all into DVD burning and digital video (still am but not so much since the 10D came). Then I got a Sony DVD burning drive, and its much more convenient for that kind of work-flow. Then I used the Jpeg function maybe once, and found I much prefer showing off the pics on my monitor, even the TV is pretty good - a flat screen Trinitron, its just not the same.

So now I use the Panasonic as a glorified Tivo with a DVD player function. Which ain't bad, but not all that I thought it would be. As all tech toys, I suppose.

My advice is just to Google search on DVD players and/or burners, there are less expensive ones then mine, and those that have a PC Card or Memory stick slot will do what you want hopefully at much less the cost.

Cheers

[eos10dmacosx]

Perhaps look at different software that allows manual operation through photographs, I use mac software, such as iDVD allows this, but I also use other software from Ulead - DVD Picture show. DVD Pictureshow (http://www.ulead.com) allows you to burn DVD's and VCD's which include templates (menu's) and automatic operation of photos. Manual may be possible, with a setting of say 20 seconds for each slide, and using the fastforward but on your remote control. The quality of the photos played back on tv are very good. A demo version is available for download.

Cheers...Toni

[James01]

Apex makes a portable with a built in 5" screen and I think you can hook it up to a TV. Target has it for about 180 bucks.

[clos]

ashforth wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I currently own and use Nero, Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6, Roxio's Win-on CD 5 Power Edition, FlipAlbum 5 Suite and Adobe Photoshop Album. Most will produce a good CD album that works great on my PC; FlipAlbum being the best, but doesn't do what I want on the TV as explained below.

I bought a DVD player for my large screen TV which has the ability to show JPEG files. Unfortunately, to show JPEG's on the TV, these programs convert the files to a movie-like format. The slide show works, but the user has no control over the show other than to select a predetermined time period between photos. In effect, you're producing a movie that contains still shots that advance from slide to slide at a preset interval and you have no way to vary that interval once the CD is burned.

My hope is to find a DVD player that will allow the user to use the remore control to advance the slides as he/she determines at the time of viewing- sort of an electronic Kodak Carosel..... you press the button and the next slide loads.

Has anybody found such a machine?

Thanks,
Herb


Don't mean to beat a dead horse but really if you buy a DVD Burner, not to be confused with a CD burner, you can create a true DVD and control the pictures via the remote control in the manner that you are describing (you press a button and the next photo comes up until you push the same button again).

The nice thing about a DVD burner is you can then use it to archive your pictures and get 4 Gigs of data on one disc. A CD will get you less than 700MB, that's more than five times more data on a DVD disk than a CD disk.

Do you simply not want to consider that option or am I missing something here. It can be cheaper that getting another DVD player, you get more functionality out of it and get to use your current DVD player. A matter of fact you can use anybody's DVD player so if you want to show them somewhere else besides your house you don't need to haul your own DVD player out there.

I swear I don't work for a DVD manufacturer.

Either way good luck.

-Clos

[PacAce]

clos wrote:
Don't mean to beat a dead horse but really if you buy a DVD Burner, not to be confused with a CD burner, you can create a true DVD and control the pictures via the remote control in the manner that you are describing (you press a button and the next photo comes up until you push the same button again).


I doubt you can create a "true DVD" with your DVD burner that will allow you to use the remote control to advance pictures forward or backward one frame at a time without spending a fortune on a DVD authoring software such as Adobe's Encore DVD ($600.00). If you use a cheaper DVD authoring software what you end up with is a slideshow which runs from beginning to end at a preselected rate. What ashforth is looking for is a way to manually control the frames he is viewing by using the skip forward/backward buttons.

[ashforth]

Hi Clos and PacAce-

I plan to get a DVD burner- it's almost a necessity with the 10-D. I was also hoping to find a player that would allow me to show "slides" on my 60" TV, but it seems that such a unit doesn't exist. I see some units that use a CF card as the stoage medium that seem to do what I want, but using a CF card is no the way I want to go.

I guess sooner or later, someone will make such a device based on the umber of people converting to digital.

Thanks again for your ideas and recomendations.

Herb

[T_O_M]

I have a LG DV7711P DVD player which I purchased as a second DVD player that can view JPEG files from a CDR or DVD-R. Will view full resolution images, you use the remote to navigate the disc and then view the images or even a slideshow, works great. I archive my RAW files on DVD-R and make low res JPEG'S of them (make full res TIFF's when I want to print or edit) which I can view on my PC or my new DVD player. Or you can make a slideshow in VCD, SVCD or DVD using the various software around.

[jimsloy]

Sorry to be a smart-ass here, or maybe I missed the whole question, but, 2 words come to mind:

PAUSE BUTTON

[clos]

ashforth wrote:
Hi Clos and PacAce-

I plan to get a DVD burner- it's almost a necessity with the 10-D. I was also hoping to find a player that would allow me to show "slides" on my 60" TV, but it seems that such a unit doesn't exist. I see some units that use a CF card as the stoage medium that seem to do what I want, but using a CF card is no the way I want to go.

I guess sooner or later, someone will make such a device based on the umber of people converting to digital.

Thanks again for your ideas and recomendations.

Herb



Herb,

Yeah your right, I don't think I know of a DVD Burner that will connect directly to your TV set as a normal DVD player.

I wanted to do the same thing so I purchased a sound card with a 'TV Out' jack and connected it to my HDTV. It worked well buy the quality wasn't there.

I then got a Sony DVD burner and used the Sonic DVD burning software that came with it. I burn the JPEGs to DVD using the DVD format to make a true DVD. I can customize the main menu to chapters of 100 JPEGS each with backround pic and music to boot. The DVD is then capatible with most DVD players. The quality of the pics were excellent but for some reason I couldn't get more than 800 pics on a DVD without getting an error. I am sure it has something to do with the software. I haven't resolved this limitation since this exceeds my needs.

I highly recommend this solution. Good luck!

-Clos

[iwatkins]

ashforth
Like Clos above, I recently bought a Sony DVD burner for my computer. It comes bundled with quite a bit of software including "Sonic MyDVD". This certainly allows you to build a slide show from images.

You can either have it auto-advancing at a set interval or you can make it so that you need to press "Next Chapter" on your domestic DVD player to skip to the next image. This works perfectly and I often use it so I can show images to my parents who don't have a PC but do have a DVD player.


Clos
800 image limit ? Maybe that is actually a limit on the number of 'chapters' you can have on a DVD rather than number/size of images ? I haven't attempted to put that many images on, so I haven't seen that problem.

Cheers

Ian

[Andy_T]

Hi,

did you ever try to connect your camera directly to the TV (using, e.g. a SCART cable)?

Then you could control the advance of the pictures.

Regards,
Andy

[ashforth]

Andy-

I sometimes connect the camera to the TV which is good for viewing images while they're still in the CF card. However, I want to be able to archive the images and then play them from a CD or DVD.

There are some inenxpensive units that allow CF cards to be read to a TV, but the problem is that you need to keep the images on your hard drive and download them to the CF card or invest a small fortune in CF cards.

Herb