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Please try beta 16 NAS2: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_29-05-2007.zip (4 MB)

Ricky, Please try to this Project1.exe demo can run another slide show: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/RunAndExit.zip (650 KB) I still can't reproduce this problem, I just tested again under Windows Vista.

Please help me in solving this problem. You said me that beta 10 worked fine and beta 11A already had this problem. I can prepare series of beta versions to find moment when this problem occured and we'll fix this problem. Here is a first beta NAS1: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_NAS1.zip (2 MB) Thank you in advance,

Hello, please try this pre-beta 16: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_28-05-2007.zip Will it help to solve this problem?

Lin, Thank you. One additional moment for discussion. "Run application after last slide" option works only as it called - after last slide. If user click Esc during a show this option will not work. However there is undocumented option in .pte project file opt_runapponexitiflastslide if set it to 0 (zero), "Run application after last slide" will work even on pressing of Esc key. Should we make this option available public in Project options? Although I don't see any free place for this checkbox.

Lin, You are absolutely right. There is a problem with "Run Application" action. We'll rework this moment in the next v5.10 - we'll manage several individual slide shows as one virtual slide show and this will solve this problem. We can't do it right now, because this work will take at least one month and full beta-testing all PicturesToExe. Currently there are two solutions. First variant, as Lin said, turn off "Hardware acceleration" option in Screen tab of Project options in slide show which will act as menu (to run other slide shows). Another variant. Don't use "Run Application" at all. Use "Run Application And Exit" action together with "Run application after last slide" option (in Advanced tab of Project options) to return back to menu slide show.

Please try to encode another slide show and play file in media player.

Where did you try to play burned DVD disc - on PC or DVD player? If on DVD player and you have AV reciever with coaxial/optical connection, check up audio settings of in your DVD player. Audio output for MPEG should be PCM (not Bitstream). DTS and Dolby outputs can be Bitstream.

We just prepared special beta, probably it will work faster on your PC, please try it: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/apr-deluxe_28-05-2007.zip

I should a little correct my previous words. If "Hardware acceleration" option disabled and slides don't use any Pan/Zoom effects or animation, Fade effect should works with same speed and smoothness as v4.48 and for any source images (1024x768 or large 3500x2300).

Den, What size of images (in pixels) you use in your slide show? In "Flowers" demo with simple Fade effect I used 1024x768 JPEG images. Maybe you use large images directly from digital camera? It can be reason of this and other problems (large size of EXE file, long loading). Of course, more fast video like Radeon 9600 or Geforce 5700 can handle 8 Mpixel images with 75 frames per second, but Geforce 7300 is not enough fast for this.

Excellent idea!

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Den, It's exceptionally strange problem. First moment, when you disable "Use hardware acceleration" option in Screen tab of Project option and create EXE file, simple transition effects (as Fade in/out) should work as in previous v4.48 Because it's almost same code. Second, your PCs and video card should be quite enough for using "Hardware acceleration" mode and Pan/Zoom effects. Even more, v5.00 and hardware acceleration makes even simple Fade transition effect better that in v4.48 I started full antivirus scanning on my PC and antivirus couldn't disturb to work of v5.00's slide show. Pan/Zoom effects played flawless during this process. Please let me know how these demo work on your PC: "Flowers" - http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/Flowers.zip (1.5 MB) "PteShow" - http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip (8 MB) Peter, Yes, we found full solution for this problem already in beta 13.

Only in not synchronized mode, music will play without rewindings. In v5.1 or v5.2 we plan to make possible compilation of several individual projects to one EXE file and you will able to make menu and slide show with any necessary behaviour in one EXE file.

Dominique, "Pause show when window of slide show becomes inactive" option added in beta 11 By default we use exclusive fullscreen display mode for slide shows in v5.00 It provides ideally smooth playback of Pan/Zoom effects and maximal hardware acceleration. But you can uncheck 'Use hardware acceleration" option in Screen tab of Project options to run video player over slide. p.s. if be fully honest we can add third display mode with hardware acceleration but not exclusive display mode. It's behaviour almost as v4.48 slide show but still almost ideal Pan/Zoom effects. But I'm worry too complicate things. A lot of modes, it's could be terrible.

Thanks, we reproduced and fixed this problem in beta 15.

Just uncheck "Pause show when window of slide show becomes inactive" option in Main tab of Project options and it will work as you want. Slide show will not pause when you start another slide show.

Please try newest Beta 15 we just published.

We just published beta 15 with fix for this problem.

PicturesToExe Deluxe v5.00 Beta 15: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) (It's a fully functional version 5.0 with all features included.) New features in v5.00 http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4327 What new in Beta 15 * Fixed problem when some fonts can't be used in Text objects. The problem happened when font name was longer than 16 symbols. * Fixed problem with huge slides (many very large images on one slide) on some NVIDIA video cards when first transition effect didn't work. * Fixed bug on last slide with starting of another slide show by button click (menu slide show shown first slide instead of keeping last slide on the screen). * Improved reliability of VideoBuilder and AVI video output. New features in Beta 14 (May 14, 2007): + Added "Loop this slide", "Pause at the end of this slide", "No actions after this slide" options in properties of a slide, "Main" tab. + "Run application" option in properties of a slide works again. + "Screen saver" option works again. Moreover you can create screensaver from any EXE file with slide show which created in v5.00 beta 14 or later. Just rename SlideShow.exe to SlideShow.scr + Various small improvements. Please post bug-reports in special topic: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6455

Howard, We just fixed this bug in our code. The problem happened when font name was longer than 16 symbols. We will publish updated beta 15 today later.

Thanks, I just found this font on my PC and I reproduced this problem. We'll try to solve this problem.

We just uploaded updated beta 14B. This beta may solve problems with "Run Application and Exit" action.

I just sent you PM message, please reply me. I need to see .pte project files.