Pictures to CD or DVD

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 23 Apr 2006 5:02 pm

I have several programs NERO and ROXIO, that are supposed to burn pictures to CD or DVD that will play on my DVD player. When I user the programs it say's that it did it, but when I put them in my DVD player(I have 2 of them within a year old) neither play them and they give me an error message that says cant read disk. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong. I have tried DVD disks and CD disks.

Roy Ayres · Post by **Roy Ayres** » 23 Apr 2006 9:00 pm

Dan,

I may be way off -- but some of these types of programs create the file on your hard disk, ready to be "burned" to CD or DCD, but the actual burning process has to be done as a separate operation in the program. I was snookered a couple of times by this in Nero.

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 24 Apr 2006 2:10 am

Dan, I have Nero 7 and Roxio Easy Media creator 7.5 and I've never been able to create a picture or slide show CD that would work on a DVD player and I've tried 3 different (and recent DVD players - not old ones). I've tried many different file options that both programs have and none of them work. The only way I've got pictures to work is to actually create a DVD.

We are apparently not alone as this is a fairly popular issue on the Dell users forum.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 24 Apr 2006 5:51 am

I don't know about DVD's but when you burn a CD, the disk has to be "finalized" when you get done recording on it otherwise you cannot play it back on a regular CD player.

John Bresler R.I.P. · Post by **John Bresler R.I.P.** » 24 Apr 2006 6:29 am

I have a neat little program that will burn a vcd or an svcd, which are audio/video cd's, but they will only play on a DVD player that supports these 2 platforms. All of my older DVD players can't read the disks. I suspect that your dvd player doesn't support the svcd format.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 24 Apr 2006 6:35 am

The DVD players I have are a late 2005 model Samsung and and a 2003 model Sony and neither will play video CD's. We also tried it in a friends 2005 "go video" DVD player and it wouldn't work either.[This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 24 April 2006 at 07:37 AM.]

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 25 Apr 2006 6:19 am

Thanks Roy,Jack and John for your help. When a person pays $ 70-90 for a program that says it will do something it should do it. Another problem is these companys make it very difficuld to contact them and want to charge us for resolving theur problem. I for one am getting fed up with company's who don't live up to their advertised promises. It might be time to notify the Attorney General's Office and file a complaint against Nero and Roxio.

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 26 Apr 2006 8:11 am

Nero and Roxio do not like to exist on the same computer !!! That is your problem.

As you install one program,it deletes some major files needed by the other. It DON'T make any difference which program you attempt to install first. They won't co-exist together.

I use Nero 6.0 and have never had any problems with it makeing picture CD's.

In the Nero program,simply drag and drop the pictures over to the CD burner as "data" files.........

Works every time.

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 26 Apr 2006 9:13 am

Nero and Roxio WILL co-exist on the same PC. I've had various versions of Nero and Roxio on the same PC for the last 4 years. I currently have Roxio V7.5 and Nero V7. I keep them both on my PC because I do PC support. I know many people with both on their PC.

The ONLY issue is the UDF (packet) program. You can only have one UDF program. e.g. Nero InCd or Roxio "Direct CD" (in older versions) and now called "Drag to Disc" in newer systems. Or in the case of Sonic it's "DLA". [This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 26 April 2006 at 10:15 AM.]

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 26 Apr 2006 11:01 am

Bill, I have used Roxio for several years and have ver 8, before I purchased Nero. Roxio didnt work then and thats why I tried Nero. Both programs will put the picture files on a CD or DVD but they wont play as a slide show on my DVD player.

Jack I disabled both NERO and ROXIO drag to disk programs. I have talked with other folks about the slide show programs and they, like us cant get them to work either.

From now on if a program that I purchase doesnt work like it was touted to do its going back to the store.

John Gretzinger · Post by **John Gretzinger** » 6 May 2006 7:33 pm

One thing you didn't mention was what kind of blank DVDs you are using - there is a difference between the DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM. The DVD-R format is the most compatable format for stand alone DVD players.

I use both Roxio and Nero to burn DVD Data disks as well Video Slide shows.

jdg

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Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 7 May 2006 5:50 am

Not directly related but my Nero and B's
Recorder Gold Basic software refer to
WMA files. I assume that refers to Windows Media?
What is the difference between MP3, Wav and
WMA files?

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 7 May 2006 6:04 am

John, it's not the media and it's not because the CD's are not "finalized".

Since I posted I saw a post about this exact same thing on the Dell support site and one user reported that the ONLY DVD player he found that would play VCD's was the Phillips DVP652, and strangely it's a relatively cheap unit. I can't confirm that, only what was posted.

In reference to the audio file types, MP3 is the most common audio compression format for audio. WMA is a recent (last 3 or 4 years) compressed format introduced by Microsoft and their "answer" to MP3. Wav files are not compressed and are "full fidelity" music files.

As a side note, if you hae a wav file and you convert it to a compressed file, e.g. an MP3 or wma file, it will lose "some" fidelity - how much??? (and also depends on the amount of compression). If you then want to convert it back to a wav you will not regain the lost fidelity - "once it's gone, it's gone".

Another issue with wav files or audio in general is the number of bits. CD audio is 16 bit audio. There are many SoundBlaster sound cards (and other brands) that are 24 bit audio and that's obviously a truer digital representation of the analog sound file, however the 24 bits is lost when you burn an audio CD as it's only burned as 16 bits.