Problem with photos to DVD-R or CD-R.

On 2016-08-24 15:13:09 +0000, Michael said:

On 2016-08-22 21:39:29 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-22 20:53:24 +0000, Mort said:

Hi,

I often find the need to send photos by discs,and have noted a problem.
I use Picasa as my photo software. When I burn photos to DVD-R or CD-R,
they play back nicely on my PCs. However, when I try to view them on my
TV set via an outboard DVD player, I get the message that the
correctly-named photo group is there, but they do not appear. Instead,
I get an on-screen notice that no file is found.

How can I burn edited photos from my hard drive to a CD-R or DVD-R,
which will be viewable on a DVD player to a TV set?

Thanks in advance.

Mort Linder

What software and what disc data format are you using to burn these
CD-R and/or DVD-R photo albums?

I have found that the most versatile software for this sort of job is
Roxio Toast, which is, Mac only. Toast will give you the option to burn
a cross platform "Photo Disc" with full resolution images and
automatically generated slideshows. I am sure the has to be something
similar for Windows.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/#overview

Thank you Duck. I have been juryrigging this procedure for years and
now you've given me a reason to finally buy Roxio Toast!!

Then you might want to take advantage of this bundle which will cut the
cost considerably. Unfortunately the deal ends today.
https://deals.macupdate.com/?utm_source=bundles&utm_medium=email&utm_content=t oastcust_email&utm_campaign=july_2016


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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2016-08-23, Mort wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:
On 2016-08-22 16:53, Mort wrote:
Hi,

I often find the need to send photos by discs,and have noted a problem.
I use Picasa as my photo software. When I burn photos to DVD-R or CD-R,
they play back nicely on my PCs. However, when I try to view them on my
TV set via an outboard DVD player, I get the message that the
correctly-named photo group is there, but they do not appear. Instead, I
get an on-screen notice that no file is found.

How can I burn edited photos from my hard drive to a CD-R or DVD-R,
which will be viewable on a DVD player to a TV set?

Read the manual for the DVD player. Newer ones (less than 5 to 10 years
old) are likely to read multiple formats, but older ones only play video.

You need to put the photos on the disk in a format supported by the player.

The key thing you said is "they play on your PCs" - but they don't
"play", they are files that PC's handle just fine.

DVD's originally were just for playing DVD's. Some, now, do support
multi formats.

Thanks. My DVD player is about 1 year old,and is the type that plays all
regions and types of DVDs, supposedly.

If you create a simple data DVD and put the files on it, then it will open
everywhere. No notion of region in a data disk, BTW.


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When in doubt, use brute force.
-- Ken Thompson

On 2016-08-24 15:34:54 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-24 15:13:09 +0000, Michael said:

On 2016-08-22 21:39:29 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-08-22 20:53:24 +0000, Mort said:

Hi,

I often find the need to send photos by discs,and have noted a problem.
I use Picasa as my photo software. When I burn photos to DVD-R or CD-R,
they play back nicely on my PCs. However, when I try to view them on my
TV set via an outboard DVD player, I get the message that the
correctly-named photo group is there, but they do not appear. Instead,
I get an on-screen notice that no file is found.

How can I burn edited photos from my hard drive to a CD-R or DVD-R,
which will be viewable on a DVD player to a TV set?

Thanks in advance.

Mort Linder

What software and what disc data format are you using to burn these
CD-R and/or DVD-R photo albums?

I have found that the most versatile software for this sort of job is
Roxio Toast, which is, Mac only. Toast willWell give you the option to
burn a cross platform "Photo Disc" with full resolution images and
automatically generated slideshows. I am sure the has to be something
similar for Windows.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/#overview

Thank you Duck. I have been juryrigging this procedure for years and
now you've given me a reason to finally buy Roxio Toast!!

Then you might want to take advantage of this bundle which will cut the
cost considerably. Unfortunately the deal ends today.
https://deals.macupdate.com/?utm_source=bundles&utm_medium=email&utm_content=t oastcust_email&utm_campaign=july_2016


Well, I missed the cutoff. But another question. I can buy the newest
Toast version 15 Titanium for $99 from Amazon or I can buy Toast 14
Titanium for half the price. What am I losing by going one edition
older? I am running an aging iMac on 10.10.5 Yosemite but plan to buy a
new iMac with the upcoming new OS in the fall.
--
Michael

In article , Michael
wrote:

Well, I missed the cutoff. But another question. I can buy the newest
Toast version 15 Titanium for $99 from Amazon or I can buy Toast 14
Titanium for half the price. What am I losing by going one edition
older? I am running an aging iMac on 10.10.5 Yosemite but plan to buy a
new iMac with the upcoming new OS in the fall.

probably nothing important.

In article , Rikishi42
wrote:

How can I burn edited photos from my hard drive to a CD-R or DVD-R,
which will be viewable on a DVD player to a TV set?

Read the manual for the DVD player. Newer ones (less than 5 to 10 years
old) are likely to read multiple formats, but older ones only play video.

You need to put the photos on the disk in a format supported by the player.

The key thing you said is "they play on your PCs" - but they don't
"play", they are files that PC's handle just fine.

DVD's originally were just for playing DVD's. Some, now, do support
multi formats.

Thanks. My DVD player is about 1 year old,and is the type that plays all
regions and types of DVDs, supposedly.

If you create a simple data DVD and put the files on it, then it will open
everywhere. No notion of region in a data disk, BTW.

no it won't.

put a data disc in an older dvd player and it will spit it back out.

On 2016-08-26 02:46:24 +0000, Michael said:

On 2016-08-24 15:34:54 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-24 15:13:09 +0000, Michael said:
On 2016-08-22 21:39:29 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2016-08-22 20:53:24 +0000, Mort said:

Hi,

I often find the need to send photos by discs,and have noted a problem.
I use Picasa as my photo software. When I burn photos to DVD-R or CD-R,
they play back nicely on my PCs. However, when I try to view them on my
TV set via an outboard DVD player, I get the message that the
correctly-named photo group is there, but they do not appear. Instead,
I get an on-screen notice that no file is found.

How can I burn edited photos from my hard drive to a CD-R or DVD-R,
which will be viewable on a DVD player to a TV set?

Thanks in advance.

Mort Linder

What software and what disc data format are you using to burn these
CD-R and/or DVD-R photo albums?

I have found that the most versatile software for this sort of job is
Roxio Toast, which is, Mac only. Toast willWell give you the option to
burn a cross platform "Photo Disc" with full resolution images and
automatically generated slideshows. I am sure the has to be something
similar for Windows.
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/#overview

Thank you Duck. I have been juryrigging this procedure for years and
now you've given me a reason to finally buy Roxio Toast!!

Then you might want to take advantage of this bundle which will cut the
cost considerably. Unfortunately the deal ends today.
https://deals.macupdate.com/?utm_source=bundles&utm_medium=email&utm_content=t oastcust_email&utm_campaign=july_2016

Well,

I missed the cutoff. But another question. I can buy the newest Toast
version 15 Titanium for $99 from Amazon or I can buy Toast 14 Titanium
for half the price. What am I losing by going one edition older? I am
running an aging iMac on 10.10.5 Yosemite but plan to buy a new iMac
with the upcoming new OS in the fall.

Go ahead and buy Toast 14, you shouldn't have any issues. I am still
running Toast 12 on my mid-2010 running OS X 10.11.6 El Cap.


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Regards,

Savageduck

Joe Makowiec wrote:
On 23 Aug 2016 in rec.photo.digital, Mort wrote:

Thanks a lot. My problem is with my older friends who have no
computer and want to see the photos on their TV sets via their DVD
player.

I tried something new today. I burned the photos to a DVD+R as a
DVD, and the results are weird. Under "scenes" playback, I got an
out-of-control slide show that did not respond to stop, next, etc,
but just kept on going. Under "play", each photo started as a
close-up, and then zoomed out to the full photo frame; all
automatically and with no control possible from me.

Frankly, I am ready to quit. It is just not worth the effort.

Thanks again, all, for your help and kindness. It is time for my
strategic retreat.

You mentioned in your initial post that you're using Picasa. Not
having such handy, I don't know what 'stuff' it adds to the CD / DVD
other than pictures. However, you might try copying only pictures -
outside Picasa - to the root of a CD / DVD and see if that will play
properly.

I had a similar problem - got a USB drive full of pictures from a
cousin, and passed copies of it along to other family members. One of
the members mentioned that they could only see one picture, so I
dutifully pulled out another USB drive, copied pictures to it, and
since we were going to visit them anyway, took it to them. Turns out
the two drives were identical, and the issue had more to do with the
fact that whatever software had created the collection in the first
place, and whatever was being used to read it, had different
expectations.

Hi,

Thanks. The problem is that my photos are edited in Picasa. If I try
burning them from "photos", then they are not edited, and therefore not
so useful.

Mort

Savageduck wrote:
Some of his friends do not own/use computers, so DB is not a solution. A
cross platform, system blind DVD photo disc is the only workable option
for the bulk of his recipients. He just has to find a way to burn those
photo discs without built in problems.


Exactly.

Thanks,
Mort

Savageduck wrote:
My guess is he has no "costumers" with, or without a computer.

He does have friends who have no computer access, but who have the means
to play a photo disc (DVD) on a DVD player connected to a TV.


Correct. I am a young 87 years old, and many friends of mine do not have
a computer and not even a cell phone. I built recording amplifiers for
records at age 16, and square wave generators for medical research in my
20s, but that was with tubes. Computer chips are another world entirely.

Mort Linder

On 2016-08-27 01:36:17 +0000, Mort said:

Joe Makowiec wrote:
On 23 Aug 2016 in rec.photo.digital, Mort wrote:

Thanks a lot. My problem is with my older friends who have no
computer and want to see the photos on their TV sets via their DVD
player.

I tried something new today. I burned the photos to a DVD+R as a
DVD, and the results are weird. Under "scenes" playback, I got an
out-of-control slide show that did not respond to stop, next, etc,
but just kept on going. Under "play", each photo started as a
close-up, and then zoomed out to the full photo frame; all
automatically and with no control possible from me.

Frankly, I am ready to quit. It is just not worth the effort.

Thanks again, all, for your help and kindness. It is time for my
strategic retreat.

You mentioned in your initial post that you're using Picasa. Not
having such handy, I don't know what 'stuff' it adds to the CD / DVD
other than pictures. However, you might try copying only pictures -
outside Picasa - to the root of a CD / DVD and see if that will play
properly.

I had a similar problem - got a USB drive full of pictures from a
cousin, and passed copies of it along to other family members. One of
the members mentioned that they could only see one picture, so I
dutifully pulled out another USB drive, copied pictures to it, and
since we were going to visit them anyway, took it to them. Turns out
the two drives were identical, and the issue had more to do with the
fact that whatever software had created the collection in the first
place, and whatever was being used to read it, had different
expectations.

Hi,

Thanks. The problem is that my photos are edited in Picasa. If I try
burning them from "photos", then they are not edited, and therefore
not so useful.

Mort

Since Picasa has been superseded by Google Photos, is there some way
you could create the photo CD/DVD from that?

If not can you export the Picasa (or Google Photos) edited image files
to a fresh folder as full size JPEGs?
It might be possible to burn the CD/DVD from those exported files.

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Regards,

Savageduck