Create Photo CDs

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 19:28, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> >On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:37, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >> Hi, list,
> >>
> >> I'd like to do is create a CD-ROM (or two or three or ...) that works
> >> like a photo CD, by which I mean a CD-ROM that I can slap into a drive
> >> and view as a slide show.
> >>
> >> Anyone done that with Linux tools? If so, care to share your approach?
> >> So far, the best I've been able to come up with short of serious coding
> >> is a PHP-based gallery that requires a Web browswer or the PHP
> >> interpreter.
>
> ...
>
> >If you're using KDE there is a program called KView which allows you to
> > view photos in a slide show fashion. In this case you just have to gather
> > all of your photos into one directory and burn a CD. When you start KView
> > you open the directory and either can then page through the photos
> > manually or automatically. The only thing I haven't yet found is a way to
> > vary the hold time when paging automatically.
>
> There's an article on digigital photography in this Month's Linux Journal
> in which they describe digiKam on KDE and F-Spot with gnome.  The article
> also goes into scanning with kooka and xsane front ends.
>
> Personally I generally use iPhoto on my Mac Mini :-).
>
> Bill

You must have October already, which I haven't received yet. (I see F-Spot 
mentioned in the coming attractions column in the September issue.) I'll be 
sure to read it!

I've read the the  MAC multi-media software is _really_ good but haven't had 
the opportunity to try it.

cmr
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