DVD Slide shows only auto-cycle 100 slides; then aborts. What's the fix??

Question

I burned 2800 jpeg Photos from my IMac onto a DVD using iDVD and set it up for auto-play, so that the 2800-frame slide show would autostart running and advance to a new photo every 3 seconds as soon as loaded into the DVD player in our TV room.
On my Panasonic DVD player, however, I can only view the first 100 or so slides automatically before the show aborts and the player defaults back to its home screen as if it had completed the slide show.
Why will my DVD player only show the first 100 of 2800 slides on the DVD before quitting ? Is it a limitation of the DVD player hardware or software or have I misconfigured iDVD ?
If I want to view all 2800 slides on the DVD, I can do so only by holding down the forward and reverse buttons on the player's remote control to jump forward or backward to the next or previous slides. Only then will it display beyond the first 100 or so slides and run to the end. In auto advance mode, it chokes after the first 100 frames and quits on me.
As long as I manually advance to the next frame, I am fine...but the player-DVD combination will only auto-advance the first 100 before the player hardware/software crashes.
Any ideas how to fix ????
Intel Imac 2.1 GHz - 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   1 Gb RAM

Answer 1

Thanks. This is very clumsy to work around but maybe the just released Toast 8 has a workaround that iDvd does not. Trick is I guess to get 28 tracks onto a single DVD - each with 99 (slides) chapters. Is this doable ??
Surely there is a simple way to copy 2800 files - maybe just a simple file copy, onto a blank CD or DVD and have a CD/DVD player`read them and auto advance.
This is very frustrating because these sophisticated software programs are good at doing fancy things with movies but can't produce a simple slide show with more than 99 frames.
Michael,
The basic problem is iDVD treats slides in a
slideshow as chapters and a DVD track is limited to
99 chapters per track. Prior to iDVD 6, slideshows
were limited to 99 slides. iDVD 6 added a 'fix' to
allow several such slideshow tracks to be linked
together. HOWEVER, not all DVD players (as you have
found) want to recognize the linking and will quit
(or drop the audio) after the 99th slide.
Any ideas how to fix ????
There is nothing you can do in iDVD to change this.
There are some DVD players that will play through
all he images - you can take you DVD to a 'big-box'
store with a lot of DVD players on display and see
if you can find a player that will play all the
slides.
OR
You can create your slideshow as a movie in iMove,
although your 2800 slides at 3 seconds per slide
would create a movie that is 140 minutes long, and
this exceeds the 120 minute limit of what can be put
on a single layer DVD with iDVD.
F Shippey