Alan Pope wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:06PM +0000, Keith Powell wrote: >> This is my first posting to this list, and I hope it is OK to post >> requests for help on this list, rather than asking on the main Ubuntu lists. >> > > Yeah, it's fine to ask techy questions here. Others do. > >> I would like to make several hundred slides into self-contained slide >> shows. The idea is to burn them on to a DVD or several CDs so that they >> can be played on a DVD player and viewed on a television. I don't want >> to have to play them through a computer. >> > > So you want to organise some photos into folders then burn all that onto > DVD/CD and then > chuck that into a standard player under the telly and it "Just work"? > > If your player supports JPEGs in folders then that should be easily do-able > without any > additional softare. Just organise your photos into folders in nautilus and > then throw a > blank CD/DVD into the machine. When the popup choice to burn media appears, > make a blank > data cd and drag all the photos into the resulting window. Hit the "write to > cd" button > and away it goes. > > If you want some kind of funky menu system then I think you may be out of > luck unless you > can use some DVD authoring software. > >> With KDE, there is a program called DigiKam which will do this, but is >> there a Gnome program which I can use, or will I have to use DigiKam >> with Gnome also? I have searched an can't find one. >> > > You can use digikam under gnome, yes. There's also f-spot which is the gnome > equivalent > of digikam. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Al. >
Al, Thanks for the reply. Further explanation: I want something more sophisticated that just photographs on a CD which I select as necessary. I want to start the slide show and the slides change automatically every few seconds. Perhaps with music as well. I've downloaded f-spot (thanks for the suggestion) and will look at it later today. Cheers Keith -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
