Pictures Slideshow in VLC

[CloudStalker]

It's kinda funny, CloudStalker had requested this a long time ago, basically he was told that it was nonsensical and that there are other programs out there for this. Why the change all of the sudden?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It's kinda funny, CloudStalker had requested this a long time ago, basically he was told that it was nonsensical and that there are other programs out there for this. Why the change all of the sudden?

Because everyone hates you

[VLC_help]

AFAIK the guy who wrote the patch is a new developer. So he prolly didn't say anything to the thread you did earlier.
https://cia.vc/stats/author/Joseph%20Tulou?s_message=3R

And even if someone here says the idea is stupid/impossible it still might get done, because VLC is open source project. So what I mean is, don't take things too personally if something goes against your wishes/hopes.

[ddreier]

Cool, so it'll be out in the next release?

[VLC_help]

It should be in 1.0.0

[linuxnewbie]

It should be in 1.0.0

I have some questions as to the features of the picture viewer.

Is there going to be a way that we can configure whether or not the slideshow starts automatically?
I would like to be able to use VLC as a picture viewer where I can just look at the picture OR play a slide show.
It might help to be able to tell VLC to wait until I click play to start a slideshow if I am viewing a picture.

Also, is there a way to be able to listen to music and watch a slideshow at the same time in one VLC Media Player instance?
What I mean is to be able to watch the slideshow while the music is playing (so it acts a little like a movie).

Finally, can VLC open audio/video/image files from the command line?
I would like to be able to click on the video/audio/image file in Windows Explorer and have it open in VLC Media Player,
or have VLC Media Player autorun (Windows users know what this is) when I put an audio/video/picture DVD/CD in the computer.

[VLC_help]

Is there going to be a way that we can configure whether or not the slideshow starts automatically?
I would like to be able to use VLC as a picture viewer where I can just look at the picture OR play a slide show.
It might help to be able to tell VLC to wait until I click play to start a slideshow if I am viewing a picture.

AFAIK nothing has been done to GUI. So you have to know the syntax and use playlist, .bat files or something similar.

Also, is there a way to be able to listen to music and watch a slideshow at the same time in one VLC Media Player instance?

If slave input works with 1.0.0 release, then yes. Otherwise no.

Finally, can VLC open audio/video/image files from the command line?

Yes it can.

[pavelponomaryov]

Cool! Guys, thanks so much for making this happen in v1.0! It's simply amazing and saves me a lot of clicks! I've got this Sanyo hd1000 videcamera which can shoot full hd movies and pictures. Now I simply drag the folder with pictures and videos onto vlc and enyoj watching videos and pictures in chronological order! Thanks a lot everyone!

[CloudStalker]

Ah, so it has been added, eh? Cool.

[MCyr]

Would it be possible to transcode such a slideshow to a movie? Something like

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vlc -I dummy *.jpg --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4000}:std{mux=ts,dst=test.ts}' --fake-duration 5000

would simply result in vlc regenerating a 5secs mpeg from one image at a time, overwriting the previous, but would it be possible to tie it to some kind of sink and then encode/mux that sink?

[erwan10]

By adding --sout-keep to your command, your should get a movie out of all the *.jpg concatenated.

Erwan10

[MCyr]

Great! Exactly what I needed, thanks. On a side note, if anyone ever needs to use this, keep in mind that if the pictures aren't the same size (width x height), you will need to do some image resizing and also tell transcode what format to use. Something like this will give you a 720x480 5s x number of images MPEG2 TS movie :

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vlc -I dummy *.jpg --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4000000,width=720,height=480}:std{dst=movie.ts,mux=ts}' --fake-duration 5000 --fake-width 720 --fake-height 480 -vvv --sout-keep

VLC can somewhat handle live size changes, but it's still not perfect and most of the players will simply die on picture size changes.