Is Picture CD or Photo CD compatible with DVD?
Sometimes. Since Picture CDs and Photo CDs are usually on CD-R media, they suffer from the CD-R problem (see 2.4.3). That aside, some DVD players can play Picture CDs. Only a few can play Photo CDs. Most DVD-ROM drives will read Picture CDs or Photo CDs (if they read CD-Rs) since it’s trivial to support the XA and Orange Book multisession standards. Picture CDs are designed to work with Windows. Photo CDs require specific support from an application or an OS.
Sometimes. Because Picture CDs and Photo CDs are usually on CD-R media, they suffer from the CD-R problem (see 2.4.3 ). That aside, some DVD players can play Picture CDs. Only a few can play Photo CDs. Most DVD-ROM drives will read Picture CDs or Photo CDs (if they read CD-Rs) since it’s trivial to support the XA and Orange Book multisession standards. Picture CDs are designed to work with Windows. Photo CDs require specific support from an application or an OS. Photos can be put on recordable DVDs using the DVD-Video slideshow feature, which works on all DVD players. See 5.8 .
Sometimes. Because Picture CDs and Photo CDs are usually on CD-R media, they suffer from the CD-R problem (see 2.4.3). That aside, some DVD players can play Picture CDs. Only a few can play Photo CDs. Most DVD-ROM drives will read Picture CDs or Photo CDs (if they read CD-Rs) since it’s trivial to support the XA and Orange Book multisession standards. Picture CDs are designed to work with Windows. Photo CDs require specific support from an application or an OS. Photos can be put on recordable DVDs using the DVD-Video slideshow feature, which works on all DVD players. See 5.8.
