Power Point presentation on TVfrom CD.

I hope I get right.

My grandaughter made a power point presentationon CD , for her school project,with some help from her father.

She took the CD to school. The Teacher ask her if she could get it on a DVD
As the school uses a External DVD player to the TV.

My understanding is that DVD players be they internal/External all can read a CD.
1.So why DVD in lieu of CD?

2. Can a Power Point presentation file be read by a DVD/CD player and played on a TV. There is no software ( PowerPoint) to activate?

3. How would one go about doing a presentation that would be able to be projected from DVD/CD to a TV?

GrandPa is supposed to know! go figure. HELP, Please.

I'm not too sure on this, I'm making my best guess.

When you run a PowerPoint presentation via a pc, and pc projector or tv out, the presentation is being run in PowerPoint software. It takes the files, allows control with mouse etc and converts the display to video.

A standalone dvd player is a very dumb machine. It can only play limited formats. Originally just those approved by the esteemed DVD Forum. Current dvd players can play commercial dvds, mpegs, jpeg slideshows, mp3 etc.

In order to run the presentation on a dvd player you need to convert the presentation to dvd video, and translate any mouse/keyboard controls into dvd controls.

You can buy software to do this (not cheap). Google "powerpoint on dvd player" no quotes. You can also get by with a lot of fiddling. You will need dvd burning software at some point. Here's one tutorial on how to do it: powerpoint to dvd tutorial.

Starman*

Starman.
Thanks for the link.
Do own Nero 7 full version.
Will try it out.

It's fortunate that you have Nero7 because you will need Nero Vision to author the dvd.

I don't know how familiar you are with dvd authoring. The general principle of that tutorial is to record the presentation as an avi (with sufficient time for each slide). What struck me is that you could considerably improve the show by adding chapter points at slide transitions (max 99 chapters in any dvd vob file). That would allow you to go to the next slide (rather than waiting) by clicking "next chapter" on the dvd remote, or jumping back to previous slide by just clicking "previous chapter".

In Nero Vision you can fully preview the dvd prior to burning using a preview mode/software "remote" so you can play around a bit.

Starman*

just a quick note. i would not record the presentation video as a .avi file as the vast majority of dvd players won't play that format. it will need to be in mpeg.

The tutorial uses avi because that is what their screen capture program saves as. The avi is later converted to mpeg in the dvd creation process.

Starman*

thanks starman.
Have passed info on to Son in Law.

i use a special software for that purpose
can advise to visit

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arual.
I'll look at this site. Thanks.

That software is not only very expensive, but they seem to delight in selling it by spamming forums like this one :rolleyes:

I have done similar stuff for my corporate clients and let me tell you it's not cheap. The teacher doesn't realize how complicated this process is, obviously. The simplest way is to bring a PC into the room and connect it to the TV, I'm sure.

Prof, I don't think anyone would dispute what you say but according to the original post it's not an option.

I regularly make dvds, slideshows etc. Using a video editor like Premier or Vegas or even something lesser it would be simple to make a dvd presentation (ignore the PowerPoint version and start from scratch). Just make the video and add navigation for the dvd. If you want to do the same with freeware from PowerPoint it's a lot more work.

I'm sure son-in-law will quickly evaluate practicalities and tell teacher "no way" if necessary!

Added later: I have assumed that we are talking about fairly simple presentations. There are things you can do in PowerPoint that are very difficult to do with dvd navigation. Fully interactive for example. Most things you could do with a program like DVDMaestro (or DVDArchitect) but it would be a huge amount of work and require a high skill level.

Starman*

Also you may try Presentation_to_Video_Converter. It’s very simple and useful prog! It converts PowerPoint To DVD in one step!
:)