Music glitch after every 99th slide

Question

After creating a slideshow with music in iDVD, during playback there is a major glitch in the music after every 99th image is shown.
Any ideas on what causes this and how to prevent it?

Answer 1

iDvd treats images as chapters in slideshows. Many set top dvd players can't understand anything beyond 99 chapters and they often drop the audio at this point which is what you might be experiencing here. Suggest you use 99 or less slides per slideshow.
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Quoting F Shippey:
There are inherent problems in iDVD created slideshows because each slide is treated as a Chapter and a slideshow is a Track. The DVD spec limits Tracks to 99 Chapters and up to iDVD 6, slideshows were limited to 99 images. Starting with iDVD 6, Apple created something of a 'hack' that linked together Tracks making slideshows or more than 99 images possible. The problem is, many/most set top DVD don't like the 'hack' and pause/quit/drop audio after 99 images. Some set top DVD players even drop the audio with each transition.
The ONLY sure way to create a slideshow with audio that will run with no problems is to create it as a movie in iPhoto or iMovie (or Photo to Movie or FotoMagico (which I use)).
F Shippey
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