Newsgroups:  gmane.comp.audio.cd-record
Date:        Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:57:44 +0200

> I was wondering if anyone knows an easy way to put digital photos on a
> dvd for viewing on a dvd player.  I don't want to create a simply data
> dvd, but a video with the photos.  I'm assuming they'd either be delayed
> slide show or each could be their own channel and require one to forward
> from one to the next.

http://digikam.sourceforge.net

NAME

images2mpg - MPEG portfolio images multiplexer

SYNTAX

images2mpg [ options ] -o <output MPEG file> -i <input image files>

REQUIREMENTS

This script use this packages :

ImageMagick version >= 5.4.8 [ http://www.imagemagick.org/ ]
MjpegTools  version >= 1.6.0 [ http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ ]

DESCRIPTION

The 'images2mpg' bash script convert some images on MPEG sequences with a specific duration and merge all images on an single MPEG file. It use the MjpegTools and ImageMagick packages.

Between the images, you can insert a basic transition. You can also add an audio track on the images sequence with a MP2 or WAV file.

All images will be automatically scaling to the good size for the video format. Also a specific background color or a image file could be used.

You can use this for to build some DVD/XVCD/SVCD/VCD portfolios for your home DVD player. Use 'vcdimager' for create this…

Karl-Heinz Herrmann