[Digikam-users] Re: MPEG Slideshow

[Thomas Huettemann]

> Ideally I would like to make a show with transitions, frame rates/display
> times, maybe sound etc into one video(?) file that would work on most systems
> be uploadable to YouTube/Vimeo or similar.

Just to add a "me too" - I have for some time been looking for something 
like a "slideshow with sound" feature. More precisely, I'd like to produce 
a kind of "movie", bundling sound and (synchronised!) slide show, playable 
on computers (and possibly on DVD players).

The problem is not to produce something like this with standard tools: 
ffmpeg, for example, can produce movies from jpg files. The actual problem 
is to keep the file sizes small. Standard movie encodings (mp4, avi, ...) 
are obviously optimised to deal with moving pictures, not (mostly static) 
slide shows. I'd like to have a frame rate of 1/5 or 1/10 (that is, a new 
picture every 5 or 10 seconds), and ideally a movie file that isn't (much) 
bigger than the picture files I start with (plus audio file, of course).

Any suggestions? I'd prefer standard tools/file formats over a customised 
mp3-format with customised mp3-player ...

 	Thomas Huettemann