Will CD-i play Picture-CD?
There are two completely different systems available currently, both of which are called Picture-CD. One is defined by Kodak, the other one by Corel and Adaptec. A Kodak Picture-CD is used in the same way as a Photo-CD, but the file format is different, and an application for Microsoft Windows instead of CD-i is stored on the CD. As a result, a Kodak Picture-CD is not compatible with Photo-CD players or CD-i players. However, there are plans to make Kodak Picture-CD compatible with Video-CD 2.0 compliant players like Video-CD players, DVD-Video players and CD-i players by including all pictures as an MPEG still on the disc as well. The Nero Burning Rom CD-R authoring package from Ahead GmbH is known to support this feature from version 5.
in section 5 of this FAQ). Kodak sold a CD-Recording application to create Photo-CDs once, called Kodak Arange-it!, but this software is no longer available. It seems like Kodak is rapidly replacing Photo-CD with their new Picture-CD format which is not compatible with Photo-CD players nor CD-i players. 7.13 How can I play my pictures on my CD-i player? As you can read in question 7.12, it is nearly impossible for the home user to make Photo-CDs. Fortunately, there is good alternative alowing you to place your pictures on CD and view them on a CD-i player. Using Nero Burning Rom version 5.0 and up (available from Ahead Software), you can include still images in a Video-CD compilation. Such a disc with your photos can then be played on CD-i players (it includes the Philips Video-CD on CD-i 4.1.1 application), but also on PCs, on Video-CD 2.0 players and on most (Video-CD 2.0 compatible) DVD-Video players. This makes your investment in time even more worthfull than making Photo-CDs (whic
