Smudge

I have Roxio installed on my new machine (not sure which version). I plan to use Roxio to burn photos to a DVD+R that are on my hard drive. When I want to view these photos on the DVD+R on another machine will I have to have Roxio installed on that machine as well? Will I be restricted in any way if I use Roxio to burn the DVD+R in regards to future viewing or copying on someone else's machine? Thanks

PC eye

You should be able to view the photos as long the second system has a viewer that can open that particular file type the photos as stored as. Vista now has a photo/image built into the Windows Explorer so when double clicking on a file a viewer window comes right up.



As long as the optical drive on the other machine can read the disk and there's a photo viewer available that is all you would need. The burns made by Roxio or another burning program are not software specific while some other types of programs will save files in a particular file type requiring that program to open them.

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Smudge

Would the second system have to have a DVD drive or would a CD drive be able to read the images on a DVD+R? Thanks

PC eye

Obviously dvd-rs/rws are a totally different type of optical disk then cd-rs/rws. Those require a dvd drive or dvd burner in order to be read on a different system.

On the other hand a cd-r/rw can be read on both cd and dvd type drives. The data disks you create using blank dvds simply hold far more with the 4.2gb max there over the typical 700+mb seen on cd-rs. The dvds will provide a better method for displaying photos and images being intended for video.

The first thing to look at there is how much space is actually needed on disk. If you only have a few hundred megabyte of photos the cd-rs are less costly price wise and actually burn and can read faster. You can even use cd-rs for video cd projects while that will offer a lower quality.

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WynOSmokeZ

I have roxio also, thats why I clicked this thread. If you use roxio to burn your pictures to a DVD+R, they should be viewable from any other computer that has a dvd drive. When you do burn it though, make sure your disk gets 'finalized'. Without finalizing a disk, it will most likely not be readable on another computer. A disk that doesn't get finalized is usually refered to as a 'multi-session' disk. Stay away from 'multi-session' recording when burning your pictures. You could use multi-session recording for pictures or whatever, but I would have to explain a lil bit more, and I don't want to confuse you. Stick to a 'closed' disk, or a 'finalized' disk (same thing).

PC eye

Even with vcd projects at times here I always close the session to see working results. Sometimes the problems come from the blank media used for being able to read a disk even on a replacement drive if the one used for burning goes.

Apparently some drives get fussy on what brands are used at times. The dvd burner in the current build won't recognise dvd-rws while it reads and burns cd-rs as well as dvd-rs. GGrrr... Anyone need 50 dvd-rws?

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