Re: media 'slideshow': movies + pictures
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:35:05AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
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> On 05/24/2014 09:33 AM, Stephen Allen wrote:
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> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:37:35PM +0200, Wim Bertels wrote:
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> >> Hallo,
> >>
> >> does anyone know a free program to display pictures and movies as a
> >> presentation
> >> (mplayer and vlc don't seem to do that)
> >>
> >> eg ideally as simple as:
> >> $ programX -r media/
> >> would show them in a random order
> >>
> >> where /media
> >> has a tree subdir structure containing movies and pictures
> >
> > Most of the picture viewers installed with a desktop environment will
> > do this <ie> shotwell viewer, image viewr, ristretto, gthumb.
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> Most such image-viewing programs do seem to support a timed-progression
> "slideshow" mode, yes.
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> None of the ones I've looked at support playing a video as a "slide" of
> the slideshow, though - and the original question asked for a way to
> display "pictures and movies" in that style.
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> Do any of the ones you cited support mixing playback of videos in
> between display of the images in such a slideshow?
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Shotwell image viewer does - don't know about the others and don't have
time to try right now. Surely the OP can spend some time and find out.
;)
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