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Thread ID: 49166	2004-09-12 01:00:00	Running CDs in a DVD player	Thomas01 (317)	Press F1

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271437	2004-09-12 01:00:00	I have been told there is a program (free and put out by Kodak), that modifies CDs so that they will work in a normal DVD player - the type we use for the TV Can anybody tell me about this program and where to get it? I am still having problems with my new laptop running XP. It will not look at more than one Volume on my CDs whereas putting the same CDs in my old desktop (win98) I can see 4 volumes on the one I have in front of me. I can switch between the volumes on the desktop with no problems. Why will my laptop not even see them?	Thomas01 (317)
271438	2004-09-12 01:16:00	Not sure, what sort of DVD player is it, brand and model? There may be a driver or firmware update for it that will enable it to see older formats. What sort of CD's are not being seen properly, are they store baought or burnt, and if burnt, what burning software are you using. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
271439	2004-09-12 05:01:00	I'm not quite sure which parts of my original query you are looking at but here goes 1) The free software - from what I have been told its quite well known (except to me of course) and is generally put onto CDs which have been used to hold customers photographs. It enables the customer to see the photographs on the TV without bothering with using a computer. 2) The problem seeing multiple volumes has a superb example. I got a program from a local photo shop which I thought was the one I wanted. It isn't - in fact it is a run of the mill photo editor and manager by KODAK. Playing with it I told it to burn some photos onto CD - the only CD I had in was the one with the program on it. To my surprise the program (Kodak Easysare) burned the files onto the CD with far less preparation and fuss than my NERO needs. But now I cannot put the progam on my laptop because it can only see the new files. The desktop as I mentioned uses Win98 - can see both volumes - the laptop WinXp can only see the last one. Weird.	Thomas01 (317)
271440	2004-09-12 05:25:00	Umm the DVD's u / they have for the TV (I take it u mean a TV not a computer monitor). Does it support JPEG? Are the photos in Jpeg? Programs like Ulead Pictureshow (or other Ulead programs), make like photocds so they can be viewed on TV, either as a DVD or svcd/vcd. The volumes you're talking about are like sessions or how many times you've copied whatever to CD? I would say the prob is, the cd hasn't been finalised, when u used Nero. I think there's a setting in Nero for this somewhere I did one here only last week (DVD) of a wedding and photos with a menu. So, you could select either. And both the DVD and photos show on TV. Turned out a OK	Spacemannz (808)
271441	2004-09-12 06:40:00	Ok, so it is the DVD player that comes with a phot lab CD/DVD, gotcha. Seems like they haven't completed to whole kit when burning the CD for you > prob is, the cd hasn't been finalised, when u used > Nero. I think there's a setting in Nero for this > somewhere As suggested it also seems like they did not finalise the CD to prevent any further writing to it, which is sloppy work by them and, the photo burning software has not given you the option to continue a Multi Session CD, and somehow it has locked off the existing files in favour of the new. I thought that was only possible on RW CD's. When I'm back in windows I'll check out similar phot CD'd I have and some of my imaging software to see what DVD options it gives. However, I don't have a DVD so can't test it for you. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
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