Compilation: Music or picture?

bStro wrote on 7/13/2004, 10:34 AM

Somewhat-Rhetorical Question of the Day:

So, you can have a Picture Compilation accompanied by music.

And you can have a Music Compilation accompanied by pictures.

What's the difference between the two?

(It might be obvious to me if I did either of these regularly, but I don't. I'm just curious.)

Rob

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JSWTS wrote on 7/13/2004, 6:25 PM

With a picture compilation, you have several pictures displayed during the course of playback of the background audio. If you have a three minute song, you might have 30-40 pictures (one per 5 or so seconds). Obviously the number of pictures per song would depend upon the audio duration and how long you set each slide to display.

With a music compilation, you have a single picture display during the playback of a single song/audio file.

Jim

bStro wrote on 7/14/2004, 10:06 AM

Hm. Sounds reasonable. Thanks. :)

Rob

JSWTS wrote on 7/14/2004, 2:24 PM

The other big difference is how the video component is created. With a slideshow DVD-A renders a video stream, but with a music compilation the slide/pic selected for a particular song is rendered as a single "I" frame and is just displayed to match the length of the song. With slideshows, because its rendered as a video stream, the file sizes are much larger. With a music compilation, the 'video' component is very small in size, and you can fit many more songs per disc.

Jim