How do I make a DVD that loops?

Sorry to say that Compressor doesn't loop DVDs either – although for whatever reson it will for Blu Ray disks.

iDVD is probably your best bet for looping.

Best of luck.

Russ

Also: I believe thatDVDStyler, an open source app, may be able to loop DVDs but I have no first hand experience with it.

I've made them with both iDVD and DVDStudio. I assume iDVD is on your Mac. Here are the insturctions from the help menu:

You can set slideshows, autoplay movies (which start to play immediately when a DVD is inserted into a player, before the DVD menu appears), and movies to repeat continuously, or “loop.” This means they begin replaying immediately after they end. If they include audio, the audio also loops.

Looping an autoplay movie is especially useful for creating self-playing presentations, such as those used in tradeshow kiosks. For more information, see Related Topics below.

In map view you can see at a glance which slideshows and movies are set to loop. A circular arrow symbol appears in the bottom-right corner of the icon.

Here are ways to turn looping on or off:

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Double-click a slideshow button on the DVD menu to open the slideshow editor. Click the Settings button (shown below) and select the “Loop slideshow” checkbox.

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Select a slideshow icon in map view, and then press Command-I to open the Slideshow Info window. Select the “Loop Slideshow” checkbox, and then close the window.

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Click a movie or slideshow button on the DVD menu, or a movie, slideshow, or autoplay movie icon in map view, to select it, and then choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow.

When looping is turned on, a checkmark appears next to the command in the menu. To turn off looping, select it again to remove the checkmark.

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To turn looping off for a background movie on a menu, open the Menu Info window. With your pointer over the menu (but with no buttons or text items selected), press Command-I. Move the Loop Duration slider to zero.

Just so you know, there are actually 2 different people responding to your thread…Russ and Ross. (From your previous threads, I was aware that you didn't have iDVD, Toast, et al.)

BTW, do you think you could borrow a Blu-Ray player for your slide show. Two advantages: it would look great – much better than a DVD; you could create a looping disk from within Compressor.

Russ

smokeeffe wrote:

… How can I make a dvd that loops? …

all DVDplayers, I'm aware of (standalone machines, software) are able to loop.-

if this is a single, 'homebrewn' project (e.g. a promo in your shops window, a memorials photo'frame', a bachelor parties background), consider that 'hardware' solution ....

so, just for better understanding:

an autoloop DVD would be a disk which launches on insert and repeats endlessly - is that what you want?

Best of all options is if you have DVD Studio. Don't encode your progressive video in DVD studio since it will interlace by default. Instead create a DVD in Compressor or FCPX and sent your output device to hard drive. This will create a disc image. (,img) and an (audio) ac3 and (video) m2V. Import those two files into DVD Studio and set the track to first play. To loop, set the "end jump" in the track preferences panel to repeat the same track. DVD Studio will not reencode the m2V and it will loop forever.

Brad Stoddard

YOu can also loop in iDVD.