Burn photos slideshow into a disc–what’s the difference between DVD and CD?

[coody]

What is the difference in burning the photos slideshow into the DVD or CD?

[guns1inger]

If you are burning as data, the biggest difference is capacity, although some older players will only see jpeg files if they are burned to CD.

[coody]

For a standard picture, how many pictures will be approximately more by a DVD instead of CD disc? Does anyone know it? What type of video material are not data burring, by the way?

[redwudz]

For a standard picture, how many pictures will be approximately more by a DVD instead of CD disc? Does anyone know it? What type of video material are not data burring, by the way?

Depends on the file size of the photos. If each were one megabyte, then ~700 on a CD and ~4300 on a DVD. Data is anything you put on a disc, usually just arranged in folders. Non-data examples would be a structured format like DVD, VCD, SVCD, etc., formats. I believe DVD/CD slide shows would be a structured format. Just a bunch of photos in folders would be data.

The idea of data/structured formats become somewhat 'blurred' with many set top players being able to display .jpgs as a slide show from data discs.

Some slide show programs from our 'Tools' section: https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/photo-dvd-vcd

I store photos on DVD discs as data because I have no need to play them back on a set top player. But if that's what you have in mind, a slide show program may be a better choice as most any set top player should be able to display them. How many photos a slide show program can store on a disc depends on the program used and the file size of the photos, and of course, whether you are using CD or DVDs. There is some space taken up on the disc by the slide show structure.

[guns1inger]

If you store them as jpegs then you could be looking at 2.5 - 3.5 MB per image for 5 - 8 megapixel camera. Higher if you have been manipulating them in photoshop and saving at high quality. However these may be slower to display on a settop player as it will have to load more data and then resize the image for display.

If you create a video slideshow then all the images will be resized to 720 x 480/576, then encoded as video. Once authored to a DVD then will play in most settop boxes quite happily.

[tomlee59]

Would you say a bit more about what you're trying to accomplish? As you can tell from the variety of responses, we're forced to guess. For example, if all you want to do is archive photos, then of course you store them as data, and a DVD will store many times more than will a CD. In this case, you just burn a data disc, treating the photo data as no different from any other kind of computer data.

If you want a slideshow that is guaranteed to play on a standalone DVD player, then you have to do more work, as has been suggested by others.

If you only need a slideshow that will play on a computer, but not necessarily on a DVD player, then you have still different options/requirements.

If you can be more specific about your end goals, then we can be more specific and helpful with suggestions to accomplish them.