I started writing this set of scripts to make it easier for me to burn a dvd video from the kinds of files that I wanted to. While I have a few small videos taken from my Canon Powershot S230, most of my "content" was just plain pictures in jpeg format. Many other people seem to be working on scripts to help dvdauthor to make menus and such, so I concentrated my efforts on creating a slideshow-style dvd with some simple menus.
This code should be considered alpha in nature. It works on my system (RedHat 9 on a dual Athlon 1.4G, Tyan Tiger MP motherboard with 500MB of ram).
All I get for releasing this code to the public is a little gratification from the thought that I can make life better for fellow linux folks who have given me so much. So PLEASE send me an e-mail with your comments or thanks if you like my code: scott at dylewski dot com
This is the main script. It generates a DVD-compatible MPEG2 video file with audio from a text file input listing of pictures and effects.
Creates a simple DVD menu with buttons that link to MPEG2 files generated with dvd-slideshow or ones that you have created yourself.
Generates a dvd-slideshow input file from a directory full of pictures. You can sort by picture taken time if you want.
Instead of a GUI to create slideshows, I already have almost everything set up from my web page that uses the Gallery (http://gallery.sourceforge.net) program. I figured it wouldn't be that hard to just get a listing of all the images in a given album (sub-albums not supported!) and to generate an appropriate input file to dvd-slideshow. With a few lines of awk, this script does just that. It should be very easy to write other scripts to convert the images in other types of online photo albums to work with dvd-slideshow, but since I only use Gallery, I only wrote one for Gallery.
The script automatically puts each picture's description into the "comments" field of the dvd-slideshow input file. At this point, there's no text wrapping for long lines, so that needs to be fixed in the future.
Contributed by Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net>. Does the same thing as gallery2slideshow, but works on a jigl gallery (http://xome.net/projects/jigl/ )