family pics DVD wont work on all players

[Linda_J]

Hi

A friend suggested we burn a DVD to show all our unknown photo's in a slide show to send to members of the family to identify.

We used NERU to burn several of them and tested all on our DVD player but have now found roughly half the rellies had DVD players that refused to play them.

The same DVD worked when they tried it on a neighbours DVD.

Any ideas please.

Linda

[Kevwood]

Hi Linda, You mean NERO.

Thats what happens im afraid, did you burn it using DVD+R discs or DVD-R discs?

Also some players will only play certain manufacturers discs.

one thing you could try is find out the makes and models of dvd player they have and then look here

http://www.dvdhelp.com/

to see what discs they will play.


Kev.

[Linda_J]

Hi Kev

Thank you for the reply.

The DVD's which we used are DVD-R.
Checking back with the rellies and in 2 cases we got "haven't a clue but its combined with the TV".

We will check further and see what we can find out.

Thanks again Linda

[downside]

Hi Linda

If your relatives are trying to view images on a DVD attached to a TV then there could be a problem.  Typically those kind of DVD players are designed to playback DVD films and CD's.

Unless they can access a PC DVD drive they may not be able to view them.

You could always send the photographs as email attachments, a few at a time.

downside

[Linda_J]

Hi downside

Many thanks for your comments.

The reason we decided to try this was because many of our older rellies don't have computers but they all have DVD players!

It runs on our DVD/TV as any other DVD film.

Linda

[downside]

Hi Linda_J

Many of the older DVD players do not have a way of looking at .jpg files.  Having said that, I do not know what format your files are in.

They'll probably have to get a new TV with internet access or a PC.

You could always send them the printed photos I guess.

downside

[xrchris]

As stated above some DVD players only accept  DVD-R or DVD+R media rather than both formats.

But you will often find that some DVD players will not accept ANY kind of recordable DVD media. In these cases you are usually better of using a CDR rto make a videoCD (VCD) with the main downside being the smaller capacity.

[stephen7]

hi, encountered this problem with my holiday snaps. ( lucky for my rellies    ) i have a divx player so can play anything on it. i agree with chris, best thing to do is burn it as a vcd (or svcd), which their players should play. nero will do this for you.
steve

[Linda_J]

Hi downside, xrchris and steve

Thank you for your replies.

As I know very little about DVD's I think I may have misled everyone a little by not using the correct terms.

The DVD's are burnt as a movie and not as jpg files.

Looking at purchased movies on DVD using explorer on the computer and comparing with the ones we burnt show they appear to be the same format.

Linda