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