How to build a JPEG disk?

[Gray Fox]

Hi,

Lots of DVD players have "Picture JPG" capability. I just bought an akai 200bl player which the box claims to have this capability.

I burned an ISO 9660 disk with a bunch of JPEGS.

The player seems to recognize the disk an puts up a directory. Unfortunately most the the files appear twice! The first time one of the doubles is played I get a "JPEG Decode" error and nothing shows. When the second of the duplicate entries is played the file is decoded properly and the image is displayed.

I have noticed that this occurs with a *number* of different dvd players!

I am burning the disk via Roxio Toast 5.2.

I am desperate for a solution otherwise I will have to return the player

Thanks

Jerry

[SCB]

I'd say it's the player's fault. I have an APEX AD-1200 which can read JPEG discs. I burn my discs the same way as you and it plays them fine. I think the only thing it may have a problem with is accessing JPEGs in a sub folder.

[Gray Fox]

I have heard that the apex 1200 can only play 200 jpgs, is that true?
Does the 1200 play VCD's?

--jerry

[Cornucopia]

Your mention of "doubles" leads me to guess that, instead of burning a simple ISO9660 disc, you may have inadvertantly burned a hybrid disc: either ISO9660 w/Joliet added, or ISO9660 w/AppleHFS added. Then your Mac tries to read both the Primary Volume Descriptor (aka PVD-almost always the ISO9660) AND the Secondary Volume Descriptor (the other "volume"). Then, a bug in the Filesystem driver makes the file/s listed in the SVD be corrupted or point to a nonexistent resource fork or something.

Just a guess...

Scott

[Gray Fox]

I am a bit baffled...

SCB says that there is not a problem with the APEX.

I just tried DISCRIBE from Charismac and the files do not even show...

With Roxio and Discribe I was careful to choose iso9660.

Anyone out there have success with some other player?

Whatever...

--Jerry

[Gray Fox]

OK, I got it


To make a jpeg cd in Toast be sure to choose in ISO 9660 settings:

Format: CD-Rom
Nameing: ISO 9660 Level 1

no version number
no apple extensions

The AKAI 200BL works fine, handles subdirectories, etc...

--Jerry

[SCB]

I have heard that the apex 1200 can only play 200 jpgs, is that true?
Does the 1200 play VCD's?

--jerry

I don't know about the 200 limit. I usually don't burn JPEG discs. Might want to check other's reports in the DVD Players section.

As for it playing VCDs, it all depends on if you have a newer or older model. APEX nixed VCD support (at least on their cheaper machines) because they didn't want to pay licensing fees. Mine is one of the older models, so it plays em. Plays most anything else too. (X)(S)VCD, CVD, high bit rates, MP3 discs, etc.