Data CD Playable By Dvd Players

MP3 CDs

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT)

> My DVD player supports playing MP3 CDs. I'm
> wondering how can I burn my
> MP3s as MP3s (instead of WAVs), so that I can play
> them in my DVD player.

I don't know your player, but normally you write them to CD like normal files, using an ISO9660 file system. Just like a data CD. Or does your player need some special directory layout or playlists?

Andreas Janssen

MP3 CDs

Very simple: Merely burn the disk as a data CD, with whatever filesystem tree you want (if any). My car CD player also plays MP3s, and this is what I do. If your DVD player supports the iso9660 cd filesystem, (as my Kenwood does) you should have no problem, but of course, consult your DVD player's documentation.

Zachary Rizer

Newest DVD players can show your camera's still pictures on your TV

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/tec040603.html

April 6, 2003

By Al Fasoldt Copyright c 2003, Al Fasoldt Copyright c 2003, The Post-Standard

What's the best way to show your digital images to your friends and family? Forget making prints from your money-eating inkjet. Use your TV instead.

There's an easy way to do this and a hard way. The hard way, which I wrote about last December, is to make a DVD that contains a slideshow of your images. But this is far from cheap — DVD burners and blank, recordable DVD disks cost about five times what equivalent CD burners and disks cost. And editing a DVD to make a photo slideshow sometimes takes a lot of time.

The easy way? Burn your images to a CD and pop it into your DVD player. There's a catch, of course. You have to own a DVD player that can show still pictures.

But this isn't an expensive proposition. My wife and I grabbed a Memorex MVD2028 DVD player at a local store last month when we saw the price (about $80) and the specs. The sign over a pile of Memorex boxes said the player was able to play DVDs, video CDs, MP3 CDs and "Kodak Picture CDs" — a euphemism of a sort for any CDs that have JPEG images on them.

My life as an avid digital photographer changed that day. I could not be happier. The new Memorex player is outstanding as a standard DVD player — it has component video outputs as well as normal video connections and an S-Video jack, and even has a switchable progressive-scan function that provides superbly stable video for high-end TVs — and it performs very well as an audio CD player and MP3 player. It can even provide 3D sound from movie sound tracks.

But it's the still-picture display that has me excited. Other players probably have the same capability (they tend to be made in the same factories, with the same innards), but the MVD2028 is the first JPEG-capable DVD player I've tried, and I'm a fan for life.

Here's why. I'm already in the habit of storing my digital pictures on CDs. To show them, I simply play the CDs.

When you put a CD full of JPEG images into the player, the Memorex MVD2028 figures out in a second or two that the disk isn't a DVD or audio CD and switches itself into still-picture mode. If the pictures are in the main directory of the CD (if they're not in folders), the player shows you the file list on the TV screen. If the images are in folders, you'll see the folders; clicking a button on the remote control when a folder is highlighted opens the folder to show the contents.

You can show all the pictures or just the ones you want to see. Each one is shown for a couple of seconds, fading into the next picture smoothly.

The player had no problem with normal-size photos, the kind that most digital cameras take (in the 1- to 3-megapixel range). Even the photos from my 5-megapixel camera displayed quickly. When I played a CD containing very large scans — 60-megabyte scans of slides taken in Paris and 270-megabyte scans of war images I took in Vietnam — the player took a noticeable time decoding the photos between images in the slideshow. (JPEG photos are encoded and must be decoded to be viewed.) I didn't find the delay a problem.

I was able to put the player into "Pause" on individual images. The timing of the slide show can't be adjusted otherwise.

On both our "normal" TV and our large-screen set, images looked much better than I expected. TVs are not as sharp and detailed as computer screens, yet my photos were bright and richly detailed. Maybe I'm being fooled a little by my own prejudice — after all, I was looking at my own photos, and I'm proud of them — but I suspect my Congregationalist upbringing has a counterbalancing effect on such pride.

Because Memorex insists on referring to "Kodak Picture CD" instead of plain old JPEG images on a CD, I checked playback with one of the Picture CDs I had on hand. It did fine. (Picture CDs contain JPEGs in their own folder.) I also tried, without luck, to get the player to show images in other formats. Only JPEGs worked.

Pictures on TV/DVD

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=9/511/986&pq-locale=en_US

Share your pictures in the convenience of your living room — on your TV!

Many people are able to take advantage of yet another KODAK Picture CD benefit - the ability to play Picture CDs on a home DVD player. Sit back, relax, and enjoy your favorite pictures like never before…on TV!

The list of manufacturers and compatible players continues to grow and changes frequently. DVD players showing the KODAK Picture CD compatible logo have been tested and certified by Kodak so that an enjoyable viewing experience is provided. You can view your KODAK Picture CD pictures on those DVD players.

Some DVD players that do not show the KODAK Picture CD compatible logo may still reference KODAK Picture CD playability in their manuals. While we would expect these units to work correctly, Kodak has not tested them.

Finally, other DVD players are able to play standared JPEG (.jpg) images. Therefore, if the DVD player plays standard JPEG images, you should be able to view the pictures from your KODAK Picture CD. In any of these cases, please refer to your DVD player user's manual for the ability to play JPEG images.

New models featuring KODAK Picture CD compatibility are continually being introduced to markets throughout the world. Look for the KODAK Picture CD compatibility logo to assure the most complete viewing experience of your KODAK Picture CD using your DVD player.

KODAK Picture CDs are currently compatible with select DVD players manufactured by:

Amoisonic
Anam Electronics
Apex
Argus
Avision
BBK
Cutis Mathis
Denca
Denon
DM Tech
Funai
GBM
Himage
Hiteker
Malata
Orient Power
Panasonic
Phillips
Pioneer
QinSheng
Sanyo Technosound
Shanghai/ SVA
Shinco
Skyworth
Vialta

Sony introduces MP3 DiscMan/CD-R/DVD-ROM -combo

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3691.cfm

4 January 2003 17:37 by cd-rw.org

Sony has announced a very innovative portable combo device.The beauty of the concept is that the same device provides both recording and playback.

December 2002 | Sony's new MPD-AP20U looks a lot like a DiscMan, and quite a bit like some recent laptop-market CD recorders, but its powers transcend such one-trick ponies. Combining CD recording and DVD-Video playback as a portable computer drive and\u2014after a quick costume change in any handy phone booth\u2014battery-powered MP3/Audio CD playback as a standalone CD player, this dual-identity drive "blurs the line between computer peripherals and CE devices," according to Sony IT Products marketing manager Robert DeMoulin.

The drive also illustrates Sony's current CD-R strategy, in that it stays out of the speed race (eschewing showy 48X specs for a comparably modest 24X), and emphasizes other value-adding attributes like portability, a Memory Stick slot, DVD-ROM playback, and standalone use as CD-Audio player with trendy MP3 capability. The drive also boasts 10X CD-RW recording, 24X CD read speed, 8X DVD-ROM reading, and an 8MB buffer to support data transfer in the most perilous of recording conditions. (Sony's BurnProof-equivalent buffer underrun-protection technology, Power-Burn, helps in this respect as well.) The Memory Stick slot (now a staple of Sony CD and DVD recorders) enables users to transfer content to CD-R from digital cameras or other devices that support the portable storage format, and also allows them to play back MP3 files stored on Memory Stick when the drive is in standalone mode.

Audio CD Maker

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22599,00.asp

Audio CD Maker allows you to create MP3 format CD's that can be played in any MP3 compatible player like DVD players and portable MP3 players. You can also create standard audio CDs that can be played in regular CD players. Audio CD Maker features smart recognition of system CD recording devices and CD recording maximum speed.

Audio - How to creat my own MP3's?

http://www.weethet.nl/english/audio_createmp3.php

Creating your own MP3's of your own Audio (Music) CD, used to be pretty difficult. One needed specific tools and an MP3 codec.

First one needed a tool to copy an audio track to harddisk, a so called ripper, like Audio-Grabber, which still can be found at the Audio-Grabber homepage. Besides the ripper, one needed a tool and a codec to convert the track to MP3, this is usually the modified Frauenhof codec by Radium which you can still download here.

Time has changed things a bit and tools for burning CD's often support the ripping of tracks as well. Tools like Nero, rip the track and convert it instantly to MP3 for you saving you a lot of work. On their website you can download a trial version. This guide is written specifically for Nero, explaining step-by-step what to do.

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