How does one go about making a DVD slide-show of photographs that can be viewed on a TV via a standard run-of-the-mill DVD player; or, is such an endeavor even possible??

To work with, we have Windows 7, Photoshop Elements 7, all the free Canon software that comes with a new camera, and a stack of blank DVD+R

I attempted to make a DVD slide-show, but when I put it in two different DVD players I get "no information" or somesuch message on the TV screen.

Thanks for reading.

 

There's a step at the end once you put it on the disk, that if you opt not to ("finish", I think) it, it won't play in a dvd player, just a computer with a DVD burner.

You do have a DVD burner, and not just a CD burner, too, right?

 

So far as I know, it is a DVD burner; the wife thinks it is and she is way smarter than me.

 

For the standard run of the mill DVD player you will essentially have to create a picture movie and burn it to DVD. The easiest method is to get a DVD player that reads jpg files and burn the pictures directly to the disc.

 

Thanks guys; I got it figured out.

It just so happens that we already had a program all along that we did not know we had --- WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER

I found instructions on ehow dot com for making a simple DVD movie.

I blundered through the steps, got fancy and added assorted transitions between each picture, and even added music.

Then I blundered from MOVIE MAKER to DVD MAKER, clicked "BURN" and waited for it to do it's stuff.

I popped my new production into our old antique DVD player and was able to watch it on our big-screen HD TV

Now that I sort of know what I am doing --- emphasis on "sort of" --- I can put all of our pictures on DVD slide-shows and enjoy them at our leisure.

Thanks.

 

If your "big screen tv" is a smart Tv and hooked to your router hard wired or wireless you can access the pics straight from the computer, no fuss no muss.

 

Glad you mentioned that.

Our TV is wirelessly connected to the computer; and, up until a couple months ago, it worked flawlessly; however, lately, it will work for maybe half-a-minute and then get a pop-up on the (computer)screen saying the computer is overloaded and trying to run too many programs; this when absolutely nothing is running save whatever we are trying to see on the TV.

We have whatever better grade satellite internet service that the local DISH network vendor supplies in a package deal.

Everything else wireless around here works as good as it ever did.

The neighbors just down the road lately told me that they had to put some kind of "block" on their wireless on account of the meth-making trailer-trash renters across the road from them stealing all of their "bandwidth" or whatever.

We live right in the dead-center of a 7-acre rectangle, a long rifle-shot from these questionable renters; would it be possible that they are pirating our wireless at such a distance ??

 

They would be out of range but you should set up a password to access your router, our son who doesn't live at home has come back to town in the middle of the night and parked outside our house to use our wireless connection to do his paperwork as he doesn't have internet at home and it saves his data on his 2 phones. Without the password anyone could do this. Your computer may have a virus, you can bring up the "task manager" (cont, alt, del) to see what programs are using the memory. It could also be incoming email.

 

Thanks, Busboy; I will relay this information to the wife.......er.......tech person.

 

I can easily get a half a mile out of a pringles can directional antenna. With a dish, 5 miles isn't out of reach for a 100mw router.

Line of site plus 1/2 fresnel of course.

 

You're meaning you can make an antenna from a Pringles potato-chip can and with such receive a wireless router signal at 2640 feet ??

Do you attach the pringles can to the router or to the receiving end ??

What kind of dish ??

Who is Fresnel ??

Thanks.

 

I looked at the task manager, but could not make any sense of it; I didn't change anything --- just looked.

If a computer did have a virus, could someone identify such virus and delete it by simply looking in the task manager ??

Thanks.

 

Yes, handy for war driving, that is searching for unsecured wireless connections.

It's pretty tricky or tacky to try to attach the can to the router whose services you are acquiring for free.

2.4ghz anything. A couple of 3 footers pointed at each other will allow Cisco AP350 (good quality past era 802.11 routers) to talk at 14 miles. My personal experience.

Microwave line of sight without extraordinary modulation techniques requires about 1/2 degree additional visibility around the line because of a fresnel effect in the propagation. Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French engineer and physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics.


You're welcome

 

j martin, thanks for enlightening me; the more I learn about electronics and the various transmission waves, the less I seem to know.

 

By looking in the task manager you can see what programs are running in the background and how much memory they are using but I don't think you would see a virus there. A good antivirus will pick up the common ones but some require specific removal "tools" and are often more complicated to remove. I would start by securing your router with a difficult password and see if that helps. Your problem may be as simple as a program or App updating itself without you knowing and using up most of your memory.

I'm shocked at the range J. martin has achieved from a plain ol 802.11router, it's about 100 yds normally.