PC help: Can't see pictures on disc

Q I bought a Sony CD/DVD player so that I could show pictures with sound on my television set. The operating instructions told me that with pictures in Jpeg format and the sound in mp3 mode I would be able to view my CD/DVDs with images and music on the television. However, this did not happen.

The player tells me that there is no image or audio data, but the CD/DVD plays on the PC and notebook. I use Pictures 2 Exe to convert the images and Copy Pro for the audio. Recording the mp3 sound to disc works on the player and Jpeg images saved on to disc with the simple Nero program will work, but once a program like Pictures 2 Exe or Windows Movie Maker is used to collect them into a sequence, no images show up on the player.
Keith Roberts

A This is because, when you create a slideshow using Windows Movie Maker, Pictures 2 Exe or a similar program, you are changing the images from being picture files to something else entirely. They cease to be in Jpeg format and so can’t be viewed by your set-top box DVD player. That’s also why, when they’re burned using Nero as images, they show up properly.

To view images on the player, you need to make sure they are not converted into any other format – Pictures 2 Exe converts pictures to a type of program file, which is designed only for PCs, not DVD players. If you wish to make a slideshow of them, you might be better off with a program such as Nero Photoshow, which will do the job and create the disc all in one program. Not all DVD players can deal with this kind of disc, although yours should be able to.