DVD players stop after 99 pictures

Both the iDVD and Toast 8 software apparently group pictures into groups of 99 and call it a 'slideshow'. When the DVD exceeds 99 pics, the software creates a 'second slide show'. When some DVD players come to the end of slide show, they stop and then keep going (the DVD player built into the computer does this) but some DVD players do not recognize the second show and just stop - when you try to restart, the player starts back at the beginning of the DVD. I am using Verbatim R-DVD discs recorded at 1x speed on the disc utility (not using iDVD to make the disc). Does anyone know how to seamlessly move from one 99 picture slideshow to the next and to the next? This has been a frustrating problem.
Andy A

The official DVD standard allows for 99 chapter in a movie. When you create a slideshow, you are actually creating a movie with each photo being a chapter. While the standard is 99 chapters, SOME DVD players will play more than 99 some will not. iDVD used to only allow 99 photos in a slide show but has since got rid of that restriction, but the official DVD standard is still 99 chapters.
Therefore, when you do create a slideshow with more than 99 photos (chapters) there is no guarantee that all DVD players will be able to deal with that.
I am not aware of a way to "link" one movie into another (again with a Slideshow simply being a movie) to have a DVD player know to jump from one to another.
Patrick

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