Video Slide Show on CD for TV DVD Player--Ho ho!

[solarblast]

This has been a might bit frustrating. I'm using Nero 6.0 (I believe) and a Sony DVD R/W 540A. I had hoped to have Nero create a simple CD of jpg images I've taken with my digital camera. The choice seemed to be use "The CD Slide Show" capability of Nero. You get two choices: SVCD and VCD. I tried both with a CD in my writer. In the SVCD case I ended up with a format that I couldn't even read on my computer. In the VCD case I ended up with a CD that had *.dat files plus some other stuff. In neither case could my TV DVD player read these CDs.

I finally just wrote the the jpg images as data to the CD. This works on both of my TV DVD players. This is all very goofy. It took hours of time to find out how simple this could be.

What in the world are the so-called slide show options about? They just don't seem to work even though I have some pretty recent DVD players. One was bought 4 months ago and the other 18 months ago.

I suppose I would like to make a little snappier CD for play on my DVD. Maybe with titles, different time lapses, audio, an intro image. Where in the world do I find this ability in Nero that will work with my TV DVD players? Is there a DVD slide show?

[badahab]

What kind of dvd player is it? Some just have problems with vcd's. Ive never had luck with neros slide show thingy. I use this program called ProShow Gold
http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/
works quite well. There is a free demo you shoud try it out. I havent tried making any vcd slide shows, just dvd slide shows.

-sean