How did you make the slide show or are you just viewing the images? What is the source of the images?

Check the settings in PD 13 to see if it is set to stretch the display rather than use the original ratio. See the image below for the settings.

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Stevek

Thanks

I checked the stretch settings but they are set to original aspect ratio, not to stretch.

The images are standard jpegs from my camera. If I view them from the Photos library in PowerDVD13 they are OK, but as soon as I add them to a Playlist they don't display correctly. Normally I would be happy to just view my "slideshow" from the Photos library, but the reason I want to use a Playlist is that I want to include videos as well as photos in the one show. If I keep my media to videos and Landscape photos there is no problem but as soon as I use Portrait photos I have a problem.

Have you experienced any problems with Portrait photos in a Playlist?

Thanks again for your help.

Robert

Quote: Stevek

Thanks

I checked the stretch settings but they are set to original aspect ratio, not to stretch.

The images are standard jpegs from my camera. If I view them from the Photos library in PowerDVD13 they are OK, but as soon as I add them to a Playlist they don't display correctly. Normally I would be happy to just view my "slideshow" from the Photos library, but the reason I want to use a Playlist is that I want to include videos as well as photos in the one show. If I keep my media to videos and Landscape photos there is no problem but as soon as I use Portrait photos I have a problem.

Have you experienced any problems with Portrait photos in a Playlist?

Thanks again for your help.

Robert

Yes but in slide shows using video editing programs; not a video player. The program I used to "crop" the images to fit is no longer available. In video editing programs, I use the image as an overlay to a color panel it make it fit without distortion.

Stevek

Thanks again.

I know that I can use PowerDirector to put my images (and videos) together to make a video "slideshow" and I can manage the images so that they display correctly. However the Playlist function in Power DVD seemed to be a better way to go as it gives me more control when I am actually playing the slideshow, eg advancing to the next slide by clicking (so that I can spend as much time as I want on a particular slide) rather than having the video slideshow proceed at the per-deternmined rate eg 5 seconds per slide. (Yes I know I can use the pause button on my video player but that can lead to a clumsy presentation.) It would be much better, I think, if the Media Player could handle Portrait photos correctly.

If it's not too much trouble would you mind trying to replicate my problem - perhaps the full version of PowerDVD13 works better than the trial version.

Thanks once again.

Robert

Stevek

I found a work-around which seems to work (but doesn't remove the problem as far as PowerDVD is concerned).

Take the original Portrait photo and open it in a photo-editing software. (I tried Photoshop Elements 9 and also Photo Director 3 and they both work.) Don't do any editing at all, just "Save As" and give it a new name. The new photo behaves correctly in PowerDVD 13.

You can also actually do some editing such as cropping on the photo and the new version seems to work OK as well.

While this work-around gets me over my present problem, I feel this strange behaviour of Portrait photos is a serious limitation of PowerDVD's capabilities.

Cheers

Robert