Are there any commercial programs which allow you to play a PPT directly in
a standard DVD player.

You will have to capture your presentation as a video and then burn the
video to DVD. See the following for a start:

PowerPoint to DVD
http://www.soniacoleman.com/FAQs/FAQ00140.htm
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"Terrance Rooney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Are there any commercial programs which allow you to play a PPT directly
in
> a standard DVD player.
>
>

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Are there any commercial programs which allow you to play
a PPT directly in
a standard DVD player.

Answer, 1. Is your question how can I play PPT on a TV?
You might not need a DVD player. 2. If you do want to use
a DVD player, the first issue is understanding that there
is not a "standard" for DVD players, (I wish there were)2.
Why a DVD and not a CD-R, will your PPT file be 5Gig?? If
your file will be under 650 mb why not use a CD-R? 3. If
you are looking for a way to play PowerPoint on TV, I
suggest creating a "Pack n Go" within PowerPoint save it
to a CD-R and finding a DVD player that will play CD-R. I
think that there might be many options, but to pick the
one that will work for you I need to know more about what
you are trying to do. Jim H

"Jim H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Answer, 1. Is your question how can I play PPT on a TV?
> You might not need a DVD player. 2. If you do want to use
> a DVD player, the first issue is understanding that there
> is not a "standard" for DVD players, (I wish there were)

True enough, if you mean that not all DVD players will play recordable
discs.
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers gives a good summary of incompatibility
issues that users have reported with most popular players.
There is a slight issue between recordable DVD formats - DVD-R vs. DVD+R,
though in reality this is a bigger issue for recording than for playback.
Almost all of the newer players play recordable DVDs (-R/-RW/+R/+RW) and
CD-R/RWs with little problem.

2.
> Why a DVD and not a CD-R, will your PPT file be 5Gig?? If
> your file will be under 650 mb why not use a CD-R?

It's not as simple as that. Forgetting, for the moment, the compatibility
issues you raised above, DVD players will not play PowerPoint files as they
are, with or without the viewer. The file will need to be converted to
video, or a sequence of video files, and either written as a VCD (which has
a strict specification for video resolution, bitrate and audio format and a
file structure that must be followed in order for the DVD player to
recognise it as a Video disc. Most popular CD writing software simplifies
this process these days but you still need to create the video files to the
correct spec) or authored as a DVD (which is less strict, but still has a
set file structure to be recognised as a DVD).
Usually a CD that is playable in a DVD player would be a VCD or SVCD (MPEG1
or half resolution MPEG2 respectively) and a DVD would be MPEG2 (full or
half resolution).
There are other variations on these themes, such as Mini DVD - a DVD file
structure put on a CD - but these only make worse the compatibility issue
with players.
I won't even mention the issues raised by interactivity.

3. If
> you are looking for a way to play PowerPoint on TV, I
> suggest creating a "Pack n Go" within PowerPoint save it
> to a CD-R and finding a DVD player that will play CD-R.

But that won't work...as explained above.