Karsten SlideShow Project

Karsten SlideShow is a playlist based open-source slide-show program for pictures and video clips on Microsoft Windows. It offers flexible, item-related control over the presentation sequence, and runs shows in a window, the screen saver, or the desktop wallpaper.

Slide Show

• Displays pictures and movie clips in a random sequence.
• Each playlist item has its own user-defined properties (see below)
• Supported picture formats: bmp, jpg/jpeg, png, wmf/emf
• Supported movie formats: any format supported by the Windows Mediaplayer
• Runs in a window (with or without frame), full-screen, or on the desktop wallpaper
• One slide show can be selected to run as screen saver
• The desktop wallpaper can be changed based on a slide collection via a command line option (e.g. during system start)
  

Slide Properties

• Zoom modes: original size, stretch to fill, keep aspect ratio, integer stretch factor, custom stretch factor
• Background colour
• Relative display frequency (view your favourites more often!)
• Display time

Slide Collections

• Slide collections may contain pictures (links to a picture file), and picture folders (links to a file folder containing pictures)
• Moved or renamed files are resolved automatically (on NTFS volumes)
• Editcollection items individually, or as multiple selection
• Drag&drop picture files from any other Windows application
• Slide collections are saved as XML-files