Create Photo CDs

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:55 -0500, 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.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kurt
> 
> Kurt,
> 
> 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.


It's in the setup menu, under advanced or somewhere equally obscure. I
have used it in the past though, it's there. Like maybe in the basement,
guarded by a wild beast as in HitchHikers. 
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