Can I create a DVD with more than 1 slideshow on it? How?

popcorn · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 40

Hello,

It is really easy to create a slideshow and burn it on DVD, but how can I burn more slideshows onto the same DVD?

hansK · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

Generate the slideshows you want with PhotoDVD.

Add the files(VIDEO_TS.IFO) in ConvertXtoDVD and you have a DVD with different slideshows.

Claire · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:35 am Post subject:

The definitive answer is no, but there are 2 work arounds.

Here is the technical reason why you can't:
DVD standard 'rules" oblige a DVD to contain only 1 audio_ts and 1 video_ts folder. This structure is recognized by any regular DVD player.
PhotoDVD creates this structure of 1 audio-ts folder and 1 video_ts folder each time a slideshow is compiled. So if you made and burnt one slideshow, you cannot actually burn another slideshow onto the same DVD as a DVD player would not know how to read it.

2 work arounds on how to put more than 1 slideshow on DVD:

1) Create one long slideshow in PhotoDVD, actually being your different slideshows but making it one long project. At each start of a "new" slideshow in the list, add a chapter mark (right click in the photo list and select 'add chapter'). When you compile your DVD in the final result if you click on the chapter menu, you will see each one of your different slideshows you can select and play!

2) Use PhotoDVD as you always have, creating individual slideshows. Now use ConvertXtoDVD and add the VIDEO_TS.IFO from created VIDEO_TS folder of the slideshow to ConvertXtoDVD. Add that same file from the other slideshows you want to put on the same DVD too. Now insert a blank DVD and press Convert.

popcorn · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 40

cool

Thank you both very much, I will give it a go!