Burning and READING CDs?

[twborbely]

I'm not sure where to ask this so have mercy.
I have Nero Express and Easy CD Creator 5. I'm trying to burn a CD-RW or CD-R disk with a collection of pictures that can be read by any other Windows system. Windows 98 alone without these software products installed always trys to play this burnt disk with Windows Media Player and the JPEG is not supported. Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this task?

[ryanatalie]

Hi,

I hope I'm understanding your post correctly. You just want to backup your pictures on CD?

To accomplish this:
1) Open Nero Express
2) Select Data Disk
3) Add jpeg files
4) Click next and Burn

[ktkendall]

Right , you want to just burn it as a DATA cd!

[twborbely]

Doesn't a data file save the image as a .tif file? Isn't the picture quality better as .jpg?

[Cricket]

Originally posted by twborbely Doesn't a data file save the image as a .tif file? Isn't the picture quality better as .jpg?

If you burn a CD-R as a Data CD, whatever file you save to the CD-R will be burned in whatever file format it originally is...the burn process doesn't convert the file to another file format. If the image is a .jpg, then it'll be burned to the CD-R as a .jpg...same goes for any other image format.

To view the image, you'll have to open the image viewing program you want to use first and then Open the file from there...seems Windows Media Player is the default image viewer on your computer (mine was the Kodak Imaging for Windows program). You can change the file association so that another program opens up when you double click on the image file. Check the Help system for more info.

A nice image viewer is IrfanView32. It's a free download from here. When you install it, you can choose which type of multimedia files you want it associated with.

Cricket