A person needs to put a slideshow on a dvd to be played on an endless
loop on a widescreen tv. The slideshow was created in iPhoto and
exported as a movie. Apparently the looping does not work on the dvd
and according to the person this is something that needs to fixed on
the dvd end of things, not in movie/iPhoto. I’m just the middle-man
and I don’t have the video or dvd to verify anything but does any of
this make sense? Or more to the point, how can she achieve her goal?
There is a third party app called ReelBean that has a A-B Repeat feature that does this. Basically you set a start point and end point and then it loops until you stop it. A Mac would have to be used for playback of course.
according to the person this is something that needs to fixed on the
dvd end of things
That’s correct: DVD Video content can be set to loop playback, and it
is nothing to do with any setting applied to a QuickTime movie file.
DVD Studio can do this. I can’t remember whether iDVD can. Toast can
set a DVD Video to play automatically on insert and have no menus,
but I don’t remember whether that means it will loop.
The help system in iDVD offers this very precise answer (hit number
one from the query ‘loop movie’
###Setting movies and slideshows to loop
You can set slideshows, autoplay movies (which start to play
immediately when a DVD is inserted into a player, before the DVD menu
appears), and movies to repeat continuously, or “loop.” This means
they begin replaying immediately after they end. If they include
audio, the audio also loops.
Looping an autoplay movie is especially useful for creating self-
playing presentations, such as those used in tradeshow kiosks. For
more information, see Related Topics below.
In map view you can see at a glance which slideshows and movies are
set to loop. A circular arrow symbol appears in the bottom-right
corner of the icon.
####Here are ways to turn looping on or off:
Double-click a slideshow button on the DVD menu to open the
slideshow editor. Click the Settings button (shown below) and select
the “Loop slideshow” checkbox.
Select a slideshow icon in map view, and then press Command-I to
open the Slideshow Info window. Select the “Loop Slideshow” checkbox,
and then close the window.
Click a movie or slideshow button on the DVD menu, or a movie,
slideshow, or autoplay movie icon in map view, to select it, and then
choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow.
When looping is turned on, a checkmark appears next to the
command in the menu. To turn off looping, select it again to remove
the checkmark.
To turn looping off for a background movie on a menu, open the Menu
Info window. With your pointer over the menu (but with no buttons or
text items selected), press Command-I. Move the Loop Duration slider
to zero.
When you’re viewing the burned DVD, you can press the Menu button on
the DVD remote control to exit from looping.
Walter
On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Keith Martin wrote:
according to the person this is something that needs to fixed on
the dvd end of things
That’s correct: DVD Video content can be set to loop playback, and
it is nothing to do with any setting applied to a QuickTime movie
file. DVD Studio can do this. I can’t remember whether iDVD can.
Toast can set a DVD Video to play automatically on insert and have
no menus, but I don’t remember whether that means it will loop.