Seeing as Vista requires it for Aero, it's fairly standard these days. A couple of years ago (2006, iirc) I posted a slide show for the List to download to their own PCs and play. At that time it wasn't such a good idea... :-(
If you're planning for commercial production I'd have a hard look at the ProShow series too. Could be worth the money to invest in something. Proshow is the defacto standard slide show software in the nature photo circles up here in the Frostpit. http://www.photodex.com/ Features vs. money, it's a better bargain than the paid versions of Wings. Jostein 2009/9/14 Tim Øsleby <[email protected]>: > How common are hardware accelerators? > > The reason for asking is because we plan to sell the product. > > -- > MaritimTim > > 2009/9/14 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: >> If you want to create non-hackable .exe file slide shows, there's very >> little that can beat Wings Platinum v2 from www.avstumpfl.com Version >> 2 is a _previous_ version, so make sure you download the right one. It >> supports a separate soundtrack, and can crossfade tracks. >> >> It requires registration, but is freeware. The later versions have >> changed their licensing models so that it's not really possible to >> create standalone exe files from the freeware edition, iirc. >> >> Version 2 requires hardware acceleration features (like OpenGL) from >> the video card, both for editing and playback. The exe-files it >> creates can be quite large, especially if you use soundfiles with >> little compression. So it's recommendable to have a good deal of RAM. >> 1,5 GB for XP should do it. I think I'd go for at least 2 GB with >> Vista. >> >> Jostein >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
