cescpistol Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 is it possible to create a random slideshow to be played in a dvd player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Yes and no - it depends on what you play the dvd on. Only an "executable" format can be random so if you create a random exe file an place it on a DVD as "data" and play it back on a computer, then the show will be random, but once it is burned into a DVD format for playback on a television, there is no longer any way to randomly cycle images. The dvd "player" in this case acts simply as a media device to hold the images and make them available to the OS via the slideshow program's instructions.The computer is a "smart" device where the program which tells it what to do can be made so that by some algorithm, slides can be displayed in a seemingly "random" manner. Video is a "pre-packaged" or "canned" environment where each images has preset parameters. There is no way with current technology to create a "random" selection because playback devices are "dumb" devices which simply follow preset rules for display.Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cescpistol Posted August 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 thanks for the clarification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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