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mozart
September 27th, 2005, 01:21 PM
Hi,
I created a slideshow with audio, burned it to a CD-R. It plays beautifully on my personal computer but won't play on any DVD player nor any of the computers at my job. All computers have the Windows media player. I always get the prompt that it wants to format the disc. How do I work around this? I needed it for a presentation and it failed. I want to know how to fix this so I can use the presentation at another time. Thanks---
Wendy
September 27th, 2005, 01:25 PM
Hi there ...

.. and welcome to the forum :)

My DVD player will only show jpgs if they are on a DVD it doesn't like CD's at all. It may well depend on the type of DVD player you are using.


Wendy
Mary
September 27th, 2005, 02:47 PM
This is a problem that we have all struggled with. Mike is the real expert and I think he will be back later this week. Do a search on this site using "Slide Show" and I think you will get quite a bit of information.

Some of us use ProShow Gold and others use Premier so the slide show can be burned to a DVD. The CD option is really iffy in PSE. :(
TonyW
September 27th, 2005, 05:48 PM
The only option in Elements alone is to create a VCD and not all DVD players will play VCD. You can create a WMV file suitable for DVD creation in Elements but you need another program to convert and burn to a DVD. For just viewing pics on a TV I use a cheap RCA DVD player ($50 in Walmart) that quite happily plays jpeg files burned to a CD. Just back from a vacation and between us we had over 400 pics - stuck them on a CD, sat in front of the television and decided which ones to do what with. Certainly more interesting TV entertainment than usual :lol:

Tony
MikeH
September 28th, 2005, 06:13 PM
Hi..

Which software does the VCD play in on your PC? Windows Media Player doesn't play VCDs by default (which is why it doesn't play on your work PCs...). There is a workaround I can give you if necessary but if you are going to play the show on a PC I'd recommend that you output it as a wmv file and just copy that to cd.

As Wendy and Tony said, not all DVD players will play VCDs. Some will only read CD-Rs with audio files... Check the spec of your DVD.

Mike