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Can Windows 10's desktop slideshow use pictures from inside multiple subfolders?
I wanted to do this exact same thing and it took me a while to figure out how to accomplish it. What I ended up doing was using a combination of a custom library and the old Windows wallpaper settings....
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ffmpeg slideshow with crossfade
I'd like to summarize the solution:
ffmpeg -i IMG_%3d.jpg -vf zoompan=d=(A+B)/B:s=WxH:fps=1/B,framerate=25:interp_start=0:interp_end=255:scene=100 -c:v mpeg4 -maxrate 5M -q:v 2 out.mp4
where A is ...
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4.58G slideshow wont burn on a 4.7G DVD
You have fallen victim to marketing hype.
What's going on here is there are two commonly used meanings of gigabyte--it can refer to one billion bytes, or to 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. (The same ...
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Can Windows 10's desktop slideshow use pictures from inside multiple subfolders?
As of today, on Windows 10 Version 10.0.15063, this command works:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\pageWallpaper
HTH
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ffmpeg slideshow with crossfade
You can retime the frames before applying the filter:
ffmpeg -i IMG_%3d.jpg -vf "setpts=N/0.5/TB,framerate=fps=25" -codec:v mpeg4 out.mp4
Update: The framerate filter appears to be tied to the ...
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How can I show only selected slides in a PPT slide show?
Try:
Going to Slide Show tab
Click on Custom Slide Show
Click on Custom Shows
Click NEW
Select which slide #'s to present,
Name the group as you see fit.
To present that group, just go back to ...
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Slide show running on a secondary monitor pauses when focus changes
Save the presentation as a .ppsx slide show
Close all open PPT windows
launch the .ppsx and immediately select another open window
The .ppsx will now run undisturbed until it is selected
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Can you get a simultaneous animation and transition in PowerPoint 2016?
Inspired by Paul's answer above, I found a way to do something like this. Not sure it will help OP, but it might help people trying to do the same kind of thing in future. Happy to clarify if anything ...
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FFmpeg slideshow with images of different dimensions
You have to scale the images to a common size. Add a scale video filter:
ffmpeg -r 1/2 -i img%03d.jpg -i example.ogg \
-vf "scale=1920:1080,format=yuv420p" \
AL_SlideShow.mkv
If you want to use ...
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How to full screen a PDF having more than one slide per page
Workaround
You can convert your PDF file, splitting it in a convenient way.
An easy tool can be mutool
mutool poster -x 2 -y 2 input.pdf output.pdf
Note: It is released with the Affero GPL licence, ...
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How can I go to the next slide of a PDF opened in Chrome, so that the next slide takes the entire vertical space of the screen?
Firstly, please take note that this PDF viewer you have in Chrome is not the default Chrome PDF Viewer. It is the Google Scholar PDF Reader. So if you'd rather have the regular behavior you can ...
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FFmpeg xfade slideshow: handling redundant options and filters for dozens of input files
This the basic approach. But I would scale+pad each image beforehand. That will save both characters in the final filtergraph as well as CPU/RAM by scaling/padding each image -framerate x -t times.
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How to disable background slideshow and make this setting stick
Just create a new folder with just the pics you want to display for each monitor. I have two monitors, so I created a folder with just two pics. So while the rotation of pics still happens depending ...
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How to play an image slideshow in a windowed mode/non Fullscreen on Linux?
Using imagemagick
animate -pause 2 *.jpg
Using feh
feh --quiet --geometry 640x480 --borderless --hide-pointer --randomize --slideshow-delay 30 --recursive .
From man page - few thing you might find ...
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How to show the number of remaining slides in Powerpoint?
One approach to this is to add a "thermometer bar" to each slide.
There's an example on my PPTFAQ page here:
https://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00597_Add_a_-thermometer-_progress_bar_to_each_slide.htm
Near ...
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How to show the number of remaining slides in Powerpoint?
As far as I know, there is no good way to meet your needs.
PowerPoint can number your slides for you automatically, but it can't automatically show a count. Additionally, there is no way to count the ...
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Keep FFmpeg running
Pipe the images. When reading images from files, ffmpeg will identify the last image in the sequence during initialisation and will read till that image.
cat images | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -re -...
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Can Windows 10's desktop slideshow use pictures from inside multiple subfolders?
I was able to do it in Win 10 by following the steps in this blog
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/windows-10-desktop-background-slideshow-not-seeing-subfolders-library/
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Windows 10 lock screen slideshow not working
This is not a solution I came up with, I found it elsewhere, but for the love of me, I can't remember where. I've tried it on 5-6 different computers with all OS's, Win 10 Home, Pro and Ent, starting ...
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Windows 10 lock screen slideshow not working
Ok what a pain in the ......., updated to windows 10 v1903 and the lock screen issue has re-appeared. I get the issue that if I choose slideshow for the lock screen "you need more than one picture in ...
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Powerpoint to create slideshow to accompany prerecorded audio file?
I suggest that you completely prepare the visuals then on the opening slide insert the audio file with "on click" as the trigger. Set the audio to play over all slides.
Now rehearse the slide show as ...
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Slowing down screensaver slideshow speed Windows 10
The windows 10 screensaver can't be configured outside the Slow, Medium and Fast settings. You can't also change the registry settings, they indicate the speed type and not the time.
I found this ...
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Disable slide transitions on a particular element in PowerPoint
If you place the elements you want to remain static into a slide layout and then apply that layout to the slides before and after the transition, the layout elements will remain static while the ...
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How to extract all images from a PowerPoint presentation?
i just simply use this PDF converter to extract picture from ppt and pdf formats, it is easy and for free
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How to extract all images from a PowerPoint presentation?
I'm using the online version of PowerPoint under Microsoft 365, so I can't vouch for PowerPoint 2010, but I hope it will help someone else with a more similar setup:
In PowerPoint, save the file as ...
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Convert .png images into a .ppt presentation on Linux?
You can create a Markdown file with all the slides, and then use Pandoc to convert it to a PowerPoint file. Here's example Markdown:
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And ...
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