Posted by Adrian A on 12/27/06 16:23

AlanG wrote:
> On 27 Dec 2006 13:37:35 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
> <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Merry Christmas.
>>
>> My neighbour, a very nice chap called Colin, just came round and
>> asked me to try his CD-R in my DVD player. My DVD player didn't
>> detect it, the same as his, so I checked it on my ahem.... Amiga
>> computer, and it showed up fine with a bunch of family pictures
>> (jpegs) in various folders.
>>
>> He thought that his player (a Sony DVP NS300) should show the pics
>> like a slideshow, but I thought if that was the case he probably
>> needed to write the CD in a special format.... photoCD or something?
>>
>> This is not something I've never had a reason to do. Does anybody
>> know what the score is on this?
>>
>> Unfortunately he can't find the instruction.
>>
>> Cheers for any wise words.
>>
>
> I usually just burn Jpgs to the cd. All the standalone dvd players we
> have tried them in have shown them as a slide show. Dunno if it works
> on older machines though

Maybe it's time for Colin to buy a cheapie supermarket player, they seem to
play nearly everything.

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