Did Phil say the guys do not use computers? If not how are they going to access the fax and picture viewer? On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:15:28 -0400, "Peter Ekkerman" <[log in to unmask]> said: > Hi Phil, > > I'll make a start for you. > Everybody has slide show software on their computer. > It's included with Windows Operating system and is known as Picture and > Fax Viewer. > For 40 jpg pictures use a CD (700 MB) that's plenty of space. > Using a DVD is really a waste of space, unless you make a big production > out of it with music and text or other graphics. > Burning the files to CD you need to create a VCD which will play in a > DVD player. > Even the most simple VCD will play and advance with the DVD player's FWD > button. > If you have one of the later versions of Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator, > I doubt you need another program to create menus. > Since you didn't give the version of Roxio,all I can suggest is RTFM > or Read The Friendly Manual and be prepared to spend some time > experimenting with the settings. > Any advice at this point may be irrelevant since we don't know all the > features of the program. > > Peter E. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [PCSOFT] Slide show options > From: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: 23-Jun-2008 9:20:56 PM > > I have a collection of 30-40 jpeg pics I want to put on a disc to send > to friends and family in a slide show format. Some people recieving it > will not have slide show software on their machines so I wonder if > there is a small > (free) program that I can include on the disc to give them easy controls > of the > show. Would I have to create the disc as an iso image to "auto-start" > the show? > Another option I wonder about is creating it as a DVD. Some of the > folks don't use computers (imagine that!) but do own dvd players. I > recently bought and installed Roxio Easy cd and dvd creator. I haven't > used it except for data cds so I'm not really familiar with the program > yet. Would the individual > pics be saved as chapters and would I have to create a chapters list as > seen at > the begining of factory movie dvds? I realize a lot of this can be > discovered by a deeper study of my software, which I'm embarking on, > but I hoped some of you may have some tips, pointers or shortcuts that > might help. > Many thanks, > Phil Williams > > Curious about the people moderating your > messages? Visit our staff web site: > http://freepctech.com/staff.shtml -- chipo chika [log in to unmask] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml