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Well, if I was going to show a slideshow of images on a screen, I probably wouldn't use X3 at all. For example, if I was using a Smart-TV, I would connect the usb-stick, and the smart TV could display the images in a nice slideshow, un-compressed. Alternatively, if I connected to the screen with my Macbook, I would use the photos app to create a nifty slideshow (similar exists for Windows) ... This is normally better and smoother than any solutions in the browser.

If I really needed to use X3, I would need my laptop or a computer connected to the screen of course ... You can't just run x3 from a USB-stick. It's possible to run X3 without internet, but then you would need to have a basic "server" running on the computer/laptop.

Seems a bit overkill to use X3 for a real-life exhibition slideshow, no? Especially if there is no internet and no PC? You simply can't run X3 without a PC/Mac unfortunately ... And I can't see any useful workaround to try to create a static version of X3. If you just use a "stick", you only have options to play video or images on the screen anyway ... Personally, I would opt to show the images on screen in a native slideshow, this way they aren't compressed (like when using video).

ed_f wrote: do you by chance know about any tool that can use "content" from images metadata to show up in the slideshow, somehow like I use it in mine (like f.i. here - click on any image to start it)?

I doubt that is possible with "USB stick only", because that would require the smart-TV's own slideshow application to be able to display image meta data ... which is doubtful. If you have a computer/Mac connected, there might be an application ... If the TV has "Google TV" or "Android TV", there might exist an app in play.google.com/store that has capabilities to display captions from exif/iptc.

In reality, I think you will have to connect a computer to the screen if you want to display captions. Or the TV would have to be a "smart TV Android/Google" with internet, which should provide some alternatives. I can't imagine any better solutions with only USB stick and no internet.