Picture CD (jpegs) on standalone DVD players

[monzie]

Anyone know the answer (or the correct method) of putting jpegs onto a CDR for playback on a TV thru' a DVD player?

Why am I asking , well digital camera's CCD's use square pixels (like pc monitors) and TV's dont. Don't you need 768 horizontal pixels on the pc to equal 720 horizontal pixels on a TV (with the vertical remaining at 576 on both).

So if I'm burning a CDR of jpegs for use with a standalone DVD player and TV what is the correct resolution for the following taking into account the unsquare TV pixels.

a) a 4:3 resolution TV

and

b) a 16:9 resoltion TV (both PAL)

If down sizing the original pictures (2048 X 1536) to ~ X ~ which is the best method of resizing? Bilinear, Bicubic, S-Spline, etc?

Or do I just slap the pics on a cdr and let the dvd player do it ? And what method would a DVD player use?

PS, can the low res mini-movies (QTime) taken with the camera be converted to mpeg/mpeg2 and put on the same CD?

[duhmez]

I've never tried to do this, but I woul assume the player wopuld know that the jpg is 1:1 and the tv is 4:3 and make the appropriate adjustment.......
This must be how they work otherwise playing jpg's would be useless.

[Baldrick]

doesn't all jpg dvd players show the correct aspect ratio?

[monzie]

Thanx for the quick replies

Dunno.... do DVD players auto correct jpeg pixels from 1 X 1 pixel size to 1 X 1.06 (51:54 PAL) TV pixel ratio?? I know TV-out (from a pc does) but standalones?

What about resizing the original images? Anyone know?