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BURN TO CD: A simple alternative
I bought Xatwhow to use mainly on web pages, so I never tried to burn to CD until I read how much trouble others were having. For web pages I usually limit a web show to 10 images, otherwise it takes a miserably long time for the page to open for users with dialup connections. I run Win XP (home), 2.8 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, and use a generic OEM CD burner. For this test, I chose 520 JPG image files, total 29,772,643 bytes. The average file size per image is 57kb. Naturally, if you use TIFF or BMP images, the file sizes may be much larger and cause you problems, being slow to load and transition to the next image. First, I put all the images into a single folder and created a Slide Show for PC. It took 4 min 28 sec to create the slide show, using all 520 images and one MP3 sound track. The slide show was saved to my "Slideshows" folder. Next, I opened the slideshow folder to preview it and, satisfied it was what I wanted, I created an autorun.inf file to cause it to autorun. To create an .inf file, open word pad and type the following exactly: [autorun] OPEN=filename.exe That's all. Filename is the name of your slide show. Keep it short and simple. Save this text file as autorun.inf. If you don't require the autorun feature, skip that step and open your CD drive manually to run the .EXE file. I feel Win XP has perfect burning software built into the program (licensed from Roxio) and don't use any other software. To create your slide show on CD, right-click on your autorun.inf and filename.exe files and choose send to CD. Open your CD writing folder and choose "Write these files to CD." It took 1 min 20 sec to burn my slide show the very first time. Inserting the CD into a second computer, the slide show began running immediately when the CD-ROM came up to speed. I can't guarantee this will work for everyone, but if you're having trouble writing a slide show to CD, give it a try. |
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