Watching JPG's via DVD Player

[yoellax]

I've been trying to burn JPG's onto a CD-R in order to watch them on TV
via my DVD player (Toshiba RD XS34), but I've been running into the
following problems.

1. When I drag the JPG's onto the CD in Window XP and subsequently burn
them onto the CD, the CD works fine on my computer. There are about
500 pictures in total on the CD, but not more than 250 in any one
folder. When I pop the CD into the DVD player I can navigate through
all the folders, but it won't display thumbnails or the pictures.


2. I've tried burning a Video CD using "FastEZ CD and DV Maker", but
the resulting VCD does not play either (it shows the first picture as a
thumbnail with a "1" next to it, as well as "Trial Version", but I
can't get it to display the pictures).


I should note that I don't have a DVD burner, so that's not an option.


Any help is appreciated!


Thanks.

[SingSing]

Try Nero -> CD -> VCD. The picture quality is very good, work pretty much on any DVD player, except no sound.

Note : Some new DVD players now are without VCD and SVCD playback, because the demand is low, so some manufacturers don't want to pay for these license fee to Philips.

[Cornucopia]

Your methods have some problems...

Method #1 - You're using WinXP's drag-n-drop, which creates, not a standard Mode1 ISO9660 DAO/TAO CD, but a packet-written CD (with UDF). 99%+ of the players out there wouldn't understand this. Use a real, standard CD burning app (Nero, Prassi, CDRWin, ECDC, etc.). Create a Mode1, ISO9660 (you can include Joliet, Mac, UDF filesystems, too if you want). Do a single session, single track. Burn in Disc-At-Once (preferrable), or Track-At-Once (usually still OK). With good media, should be readable by the great majority of players that support JPEG images.

Method #2 - If you're going to go the VCD route (not a bad route for still-slideshows), make sure that your player supports VCD. If it does, use a better tool than what you've tried. I put VCDEasy as among the best, Nero is pretty good too. What you tried doesn't even show up on my quality radar.

Scott

[hech54]

You also need to either get the manual of the player OR go to their website to see exactly what kind of JPEG CD they are talking about.
If it is just a CD full of jpeg files(instead of a VCD) the player may require some sort of folder structure on the CD.

[yoellax]

Thanks for everyone's input.

I've tried making a Data CD with FastEZ, but the problem is the same one as before. Let me reiterate that the DVD player correctly shows the directory structure on the CD, it just can't display the pictures.

Perhaps the problem is with the program FastEZ - does someone know of any Freeware program that would work for this purpose? I don't want to shell out good money on software which in the end may still not do the trick.

Thanks,

Yoel

[guns1inger]

CDBurnerXP Pro can create data discs and is free. Deep Burner is another free alternative.

[hech54]

Page 77...

[SingSing]

The DVD player you have can't dsiplay the jpg you burned, it treat them like mp3 files, and shows their names, you click on it, and the player figured out they are mp3, and so nothing happened.

A DVD player is unlike a PC, it can't intelligently scale any jpeg, or mpeg to fit your screen.

By now you figured out this software you used does not work. Go get one that work, or if you have Nero that already has a VCD photo slide show feature built in.

[yoellax]

I don't think that's the problem, because the player shows "PHOTO" on the display, so it does indeed recognize the cd as a photo disk. I suspect there may be something wrong with the pictures themselves, even though they all have .jpg extension....

[SingSing]

You have selected and thus looked at those jpeg files on the PC. Jpeg is Jpeg because it has a standard. Put the disc back in your computer, if you still can open it up, then the jpeg file is okay.

Unless your DVD player is specified that it can work just any jpeg on a disk, then you need to pick a picture CD format, such as Kodak, Fuji... jpeg disks have their fixed formats. VCD has one format. The formats are rigid and need to be followed.

If the software you used cannot do a proper job. Move on, and use another software, or freeware.

[yoellax]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions - I have tried several of your suggested software packages, and the result is the same every time: Player recognizes CD as photodisk, shows directories and filenames, but doesn't display pictures.

Is there ANYONE out there who has actually been able to burn a photodisk that has displayed correctly on the Toshiba RDXS34 (or a similar Toshiba model)? If so, can you please tell me the software you used, as well as the exact settings you used in the burning process?

[hech54]

I would e-mail those morons and ask them to clarify what page 77 means then.

[yoellax]

I've started a new thread specifically asking people who own the same DVD recorder as me: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1488971#1488971

Thanks for everyone's help anyway!