burning to CD

[Matt]

I have been recently making a photoshow, and it looks like it will be small
enough to fit onto a CD, and i think it would be a waste to put it onto a DVD
due to its size. So i was wondering if there was a way to put movie clips and
such onto a CD and have it run on a DVD player and have me able to watch the
clips from the CD, and hopefully have a menu to select the other clips on it.
Is this possible?

[decoder]

"Matt" > wrote in message
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>I have been recently making a photoshow, and it looks like it will be small
> enough to fit onto a CD, and i think it would be a waste to put it onto a
> DVD
> due to its size. So i was wondering if there was a way to put movie clips
> and
> such onto a CD and have it run on a DVD player and have me able to watch
> the
> clips from the CD, and hopefully have a menu to select the other clips on
> it.
> Is this possible?

There are a pile of factors involved.
To burn to a CD, it will have to be a "VCD", or a Data disk.
From your post, it is indeed a "photo slideshow" VCD you want to compile,
but...
Your standalone/STB DVD player must be capable of either:
Being able to play VCD's (Most modern DVD players are), Or....
Being capable of playback of a jpeg slideshow on a "data" disk.

As for your point as to it being a "waste" burning to DVD.........
Blank media is relatively cheap, and you could opt for non-branded
blank media, which works out at only pennies per disk.
You need to discern the following:
a) The type of media your DVD player can replay?
b) If "data" cd-r, then try a CD-RW. (you won't have wasted a disk if it
fails)
c) What software you are using to compose the slideshow?
d) What software are you using to author the disk?

[Matt]

> To answer your questions, here are my answers:
c) I am using Movie Maker
d) I have Roxio My DVD from Sonic.
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[willpops@gmail.com]

dvd slideshow builder, that would be something what you want.
search "dvd slideshow" from goolge or check out :
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow/download.html