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I have made several powerpoints of family photos and would like to burn them onto a dvd that can be viewed by anyone using their lounge room dvd player. I have trialled serveral different programs without must sucess from any of them.

I would like to hear from anyone who has sucessfully done this.

I have trialled GeoVid, Wondershare ppt2dvd, presenter PowerVideo and FastStone.

Any help would be greatfully accepted.:confused:

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— you do not need to rebuild those slide shows to get something that plays in a standard lounge-room DVD player. The simplest reliable workflow is: export each PPT to a single video file from PowerPoint, then author that video into a standard DVD-Video (VIDEO_TS) structure and burn it as a Video DVD. PowerPoint can export to video; see . Most standalone players expect the MPEG-2/VIDEO_TS layout rather than a raw MP4, so use an authoring tool that creates a proper DVD-Video structure (background on the DVD-Video format is here: DVD-Video).

Practical steps you can apply right away:

  1. Compress images and remove unused media inside each PPT to cut file size before exporting.
  2. Export the presentation to a video file from PowerPoint, including recorded timings/narration if you used them.
  3. Use a DVD-authoring application to convert the exported video into a VIDEO_TS DVD-Video (choose PAL or NTSC to match the target players) and burn/finalize the disc.
  4. For very long shows (your 2.5 hr file) split across discs or reduce export bitrate so the video fits one disc.

Quick troubleshooting tips: burn as a Video DVD (not a data disc), choose "finalize/close disc" when burning, test at a low burn speed, and try a different blank format if a player refuses to read the disc. Good point from @GreenDay2001 — dedicated photo/video tools are an alternative if you ever decide to remake the shows, but exporting + authoring will preserve your existing work.

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Why dont you directly use any photo management software such as Picasa(this is free) and the photos to make much better videos.

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I would use something like Picasa, but I have already made up 3 large ppt's one which goes for 2 1/2 hours. They took a lot to put together and I can't bring myself to delete them and start all over again with another program. Hence my search for a decent program that will do what I want. Thanks for answering. Tag7862

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