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Wanted Photo Slideshow on DVD (1000s of photos)
thefritz_j:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I'm gonna try the "trail" of ProShow Gold. Maybe this will be Xmas!
Also, lanux128, when it says "Create a new silde show" for shows with more than 99 photos, do you think it means that only one DVD can have 99 photos or folders?
Carol Haynes:
I think DVDs have a limit of 99 folders with 99 entries per folder
thefritz_j:
Do you think the limit is 99 folders in the root or 99 folders limit including nested folders? Let's say it branched out, like in my case, in years like this:
2001
\____Jan
\____Feb
\____etc.
2002
\____Jan
\____Feb
\____etc.
So this would be 8 folders, but only 2 in the root and 12 in each year folder. (okay I know maybe I'm a bit over-organized! ;), obsesive compulsive organizer perhaps?).
I guess I'm wondering if it's 99 total folders or could I have 99 folders each with sub 99 folders? 9801 folders?
Thanks for bearing with my weird questions.
Carol Haynes:
Sorry I can't find any reference when I tried to check this so I think I may be a bit confused.
Are you producing DVD-Video 'slide' shows - ie. the output is a video track or chapter? I seem to recall that DVD-Video can only support 99 tracks each with 99 chapters - but that may be a restriction imposed by some DVD player manufacturers.
Whatever I can't see anything wrong with a track structure of years and a chapter structure of months.
Note there is an ISO restriction of maximum video file size of 2Gb (which is why DVDs have VOB files broken into chunks).
mse-ron:
Roxio MyDVD 8 does not have that limitation.
Include up to 999 photos in each slideshow DVD menu
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Now that said, it's not quite the same as a browseable disk, but will auto play them.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/mydvd/premier/features.html
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