First off, make sure the DVD player is you are creating the slideshow for can support view digital pictures. Nowadays, many DVD players can support viewing digital photos without requiring superficially formatted discs. Some of DVD players even provides slideshow feature to view JPEG images. So you can just try to burn a DVD full of digital photos and play on your DVD player to see what happens.

If your player can read the disc, you are on Easy Street. You may find numerous free applications to create AVI files of your digital pictures for burning on DVD. Both Google’s Picasa and Windows Movie Maker, included free in XP and Vista, are good choices.

But if your DVD player cannot read the disc, you may do something different. Try to make the photos to AVI files firstly and convert the AVI file to VOB and for maximum compatibility, DVD information files (IFO) and backups (BUP) are necessary sometimes.

It is not easy to find VOB encoding in a free DVD slideshow burner. Fortunately, there are many commercial slideshow applications capable of burning photo slideshows on DVD playable on TV.

Nero (US $79.99) should be the most famous one if you just need a basic slideshow. With Nero, you can add photos, choose transition and layout of the DVD menu and then burn to DVD to play on TV. However, if you want to watch photos in more animated effects by adding captions, your narration, apply pan and zoom, or a graphical frame outside the slideshow (so-called Album/Slideshow Theme), you may need to have a slideshow software, such as Proshow and Photo DVD Maker Pro we have mentioned before. These slideshow makers are tailored for those who want to play their photos on TV like a professional Hollywood movie. They provide various options to make your slideshow look so cool. You may add background music, narration, more transition effects, pan and zoom, captions, artclips, etc to make the slideshow more amazing and eye-catching than a plain one.

If you have use any slideshow software to make great slideshow movie, write your comment below or send us your experience and review in the program, we will add your feedback to the site.