About PA and DVD players

[HuntingWolf]

Is there a way to add the books to a DATA CD, then play them in a portable DVD player? I am always going on trips with my family, and I don't have a Palm reader, so, like I do my mp3's, I stick 'em on DATA CD's, and play them in my DVD player. Is there a way to do that? I doubt it though, because the DVD player I have won't recognise documents. Only DVD's, mp3's, wavs, and jpg's.

[satori]

It is possible I think to setup up 350 individual chapters, (And the starting text) each one with a long view of the page and a pause. Your DVD player would have to support direct changes (remote) but it could work. How to do it? That's another question. Doom9.net might be able to help with the DVD creation, but you would have to make screen caps (Can use Windows Media Encoder for free if on a WinOS) yourself of the starting text and each page, then convert it to DVD format with the chapters as pages.

I'd be interested in it if you do it

[HuntingWolf]

Man... I dunno what you just said. I think you said my mum was a female Giak?!

[satori]

xhuntingwolfx said:

Man... I dunno what you just said. I think you said my mum was a female Giak?!

Ok, since you are confused I can give you the 'simple' guide, so don't get mad if it gets really simple

A DVD movie typically has chapters, you can skip directly to them either from the chapter menu at the start, using 'next' and 'back' buttons, or by entering a chapter number directly with a remote.

What you want to do, is turn each 'page' into a 'chapter'. To do this however, you need a video image of the book page, OR a Large Jpeg type image of the page (so the whole page can be read on the screen at once). So now you have a collection of pages, either vid clips, or single images, with me so far?

Next you would create a chapter for the 'intro' pages (everything before the numbered sections start), either a vid clip, or a slide show of images (1 image for each page, but all as one chapter.

Then to reproduce the book, you would use a DVD authoring program (what you use to make an original DVD) and break up what you have into 2 parts, 1) the intro text, 2) the page numbers.

I am not familiar with DVD software around now, have not made any for a few years, but you could have the intro text stored as 'Extras", and then deal with the pages like so,

Chapter 1 = Page 1 image or clip
Chapter 2 = Page 2 image or clip
Chapter x = Page x image or clip

For this to work realistically, you have to insert a pause after each chapter (so you can read it), and you need a remote that lets you skip to a chapter by entering the chapter number. Other wise it's like the old TV sets, and you have to 'flip' through 1 by 1 until you get to the right chapter/page.

You would still need to track averything your self of course stats wise, but this 'should' reproduce reading the book on a DVD, so long as it's broken up like I listed, and you have a remote that lets you skip to any chapter.

Make more sense? (And I think your mom is a stand up lass, not a Giak )

Jacob

[HuntingWolf]

Hm. Ok, see, here's the thing... I'm dumb when it comes to making a DVD. My burner (a Nero 6, I think) won't write the DVD when I try and make one. There's a line missing in the onscreen recorder, or somethin'. It sucks. Stupid DVD player.... *kicks it*

[Zipp]

xhuntingwolfx said:

Is there a way to add the books to a DATA CD, then play them in a portable DVD player? I am always going on trips with my family, and I don't have a Palm reader, so, like I do my mp3's, I stick 'em on DATA CD's, and play them in my DVD player. Is there a way to do that? I doubt it though, because the DVD player I have won't recognise documents. Only DVD's, mp3's, wavs, and jpg's.

If you can find a PDF of the books, then that will be able to be stored.

[satori]

zipp said:

xhuntingwolfx said:

Is there a way to add the books to a DATA CD, then play them in a portable DVD player? I am always going on trips with my family, and I don't have a Palm reader, so, like I do my mp3's, I stick 'em on DATA CD's, and play them in my DVD player. Is there a way to do that? I doubt it though, because the DVD player I have won't recognise documents. Only DVD's, mp3's, wavs, and jpg's.

If you can find a PDF of the books, then that will be able to be stored.

Will vanilla standalone DVD players display PDFs?

[satori]

Huntingwolf, what is the make/model of your DVD player? I'll look it up and see if what I'm talking about is possible on it

Jacob

[HuntingWolf]

It's a GO Video. Model GVP-5850. 5" TFT Monitor Portable DVD. You can plug it up to a regular television, and that is usually what I do. My normal DVD/VCR won't play like, home-made DVDs/CD-Rs.

[satori]

I lokked it up, the res is around 500x244 or such I think. It may be possible to create a slideshow type system, with break for a new chapter at each 'page'. It didn't show a picture of the remote, so the question is, does your remote have the number pad? (like a TV remote)

[HuntingWolf]

Yeah dude, it's got a number pad.

[satori]

Then yes, it's possible. Once I get a real I-net connection back up (library access for this) I think I can send you a test image to burn to DVD just to see if the concept works. I can't see why it wouldn't, but one never knows.

Jacob

P.S. Off-Topic : Initial LWOAC inventory system is working! GUI integration up next, but as I have no good net for over a month still no server-side testing till late Aug.

[HuntingWolf]

It can recognise .JPEG images, but I don't think I wanna spend a year taking picture after picture of my books... I'd be an old geezer before I was done!

[satori]

Not an issue, my screen is 1600x1200 and I can automate the Screencap->photoshop->centering->Jpeg process to get pics of each page from the PA editions. I think Jon & crew would let me do this as long as the caps are not distributed beyond you???

After that it's just an issue of 'chapterizing' the pages so you can enter a number on the remote and skip to that page. Another question though, when your player displays a Jpeg that is too large for the screen, can you scroll down/across, or does it resize the image to fit on the screen?

If you can scroll, and the PA staff will let me, I 'should' be able to make DVD versions that will play on a standalone player. You would still have to P&P your stats and such, but a single DVD should be able to hold every book out on one disc.

I'd prefer to make just one book, and have a tutorial for people to make the other books, but since this makes it VERY easy for an %$%#@! (like our E-Bay friend) to have a sellable product....... I'd want to figure out what the PA staff is comfy with first (Hint, Hint).

[HuntingWolf]

It resizes the JPEG, and there is no scrolling down. Sucks. The neat thing is, if I had a bigger screen I could see the whole thing. On the 5 or 6 inch screen.... Yikes. And yeah that'd be awesome if you figured out how to put it on a DVD.