Looking for a program that could generate a slideshow from a set of photos, and burn it on DVD, I found out about QDVDAuthor. This program is a graphical front-end (a little bit more actually) to dvd-slideshow

. This latter named program actually generates a .vob file from a set of photos or pictures. As we all know, a .vob file can directly be used by any DVD authoring program, including QDVDAuthor, to play the slideshow.

 To get it to work under Ubuntu was a bit of a hassle, because the dvd-slideshow package was a bit outdated and not all ubuntu-packages that were needed are installed.

To get it to work for me I did the following things:

1. Install the latest dvd-slideshow version from the sourceforge SVN repository
2. I installed ALL packages related to 'sox' (search for 'sox' in the name in the package manager and select them all). Just being paranoid I also reinstalled all existing sox packages to make sure it detected all extra sox packages I installed.

I installed and used xine-ui to check that the generated slide show worked.

By the way, it looks like QDVDAuthor is anything but stable, but I hope it will hold out for my simple task.