Integrating PPT recognize/read capability into future DVD players

[Mitch Gallant]

Some recent DVD players have USB ports .. which (I gather) means you can for
example, put MP3 music files or video files on a usb memory stick and
plug-play on your home theatre/DVD system. Very cool.

So what about future DVD players with advanced chips for direct PPT
recognize/play capability? Is that something forward-thinking companies are
doing now? Or .. is that capability already available?

What about current upper-end DVD players .. do they have enough memory or
flash update capability to be upgraded to do something that advanced?
(detect/parse/convert/play PPT files via your DVD player) ?

Obviously Microsoft would have to license PPT to the DVD manufactures.

- Mitch Gallant
MVP Security

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Some recent DVD players have USB ports .. which (I gather) means you can for
example, put MP3 music files or video files on a usb memory stick and
plug-play on your home theatre/DVD system. Very cool.

So what about future DVD players with advanced chips for direct PPT
recognize/play capability? Is that something forward-thinking companies are
doing now? Or .. is that capability already available?

What about current upper-end DVD players .. do they have enough memory or
flash update capability to be upgraded to do something that advanced?
(detect/parse/convert/play PPT files via your DVD player) ?

Obviously Microsoft would have to license PPT to the DVD manufactures.

Or the free Viewer. <g>

But the DVD manufacturers would have to build a fairly hefty PC into their
systems to handle the demands of high-end shows. I suspect that's the rub.

One other avenue to look down, btw, in your research: Playing back the
presentation on your own PC while you record audio and video output to a DVD
recorder or other video recording device. You'd need either a card with
NTSC/RGB video output or a conversion box.

 

[Mitch Gallant]

One other avenue to look down, btw, in your research: Playing back the
presentation on your own PC while you record audio and video output to a
DVD
recorder or other video recording device. You'd need either a card with
NTSC/RGB video output or a conversion box.

Yes I've thought of that. Tried the S-Video output on my Dell laptop to my
video-in on combo DVD/VCR
Not too difficult but not great quality. How would that video-out recorded
quality compare with screen capture and WMV digitization ?
- Mitch

 

[Mitch Gallant]

Actually, I was thinking of using my external Hauppauge WinTV-PVR (USB2)
capture card, which is fast hardware MPEG1/2 encoder, to get PPT to video
like this:
- SVideo out on laptop to SVideo-In on WinTV capture box.
- run WinTV2000 application to capture screen display (instead of external
TV or Line in on capture box)
Since the WinTV2000 application is getting video input from the screen
itself, it must be started ahead and minimized of course
I know this is kind of a wraparound way to do this, and I'm not sure about
the SVideo-out quality of the laptop output.
- Mitch

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yes I've thought of that. Tried the S-Video output on my Dell laptop to my
video-in on combo DVD/VCR
Not too difficult but not great quality. How would that video-out recorded
quality compare with screen capture and WMV digitization ?

I don't really know ... I don't get into this end of the PPT biz myself, but
from what I read here, I'd bet heavily and against any odds on "It depends".

On the source material (some suffers more from NTSCization than others).

On the quality of the conversion (internal or external VGA to NTSC vs screen
capture to WMV).

And what did you say your sign was? That probably has something to do with it
too. Oh, and they say it's a bad idea to make the conversion on days that end
in "y".

Or were we only supposed to MAKE the conversion on days that end in "y"? I
forget ...