> Some years ago I scanned many, many old family kodachromes
> and ectachromes for playback on a PC. Works really great.
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> same time with the same tools. Why are some viewable and some
> not??? Is there a simple fix WITHOUT rescanning 2500 slides??
There may be several fixes, and I doubt rescanning would be the
slightest bit necessary.
1. Check the jpeg format in a photo editing program. Baseline,
baseline optimized, progressive? 36 bit? 48 bit? It's possible your
player can read only one type and you have several.
2. Clean the CD surface, and use a lens cleaning disk on the
player. Dust and minor scratches can be enough to thwart some
players, as can humidity.
3. Reburn the CD, and when doing this, I would suggest downloading
all the photos and creating a new CD "image", *not* simply doing a
full copy of the existing CD. Some of the older burning programs are
too screwy with newer players, or you may simply be having a CD
failure as well. Plus this may get you past minor scratches that
your computer can muddle through but your player cannot.
4. Save all the photos to computer, and resave them under a jpeg
compression/format that you've already tested with your own CD
burner and the new player. Irfanview, for instance, is free and will
do batch processing into another folder, allowing you to keep the
originals while creating new versions. You may simply be looking at
images saved by a program that was less than ideal (or by someone
who failed to heed the warning to close all other programs before
burning, which *is* a serious issue).
Failing all those, and also being unable to even read the images on
your computer, you may have to rescan a few - probably not all.
Good luck!
- Al.

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William Graham - 27 Jun 2005 00:49 GMT
>> Some years ago I scanned many, many old family kodachromes
>> and ectachromes for playback on a PC. Works really great.
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> - Al.
Sometimes you can't go directly from a CD to a "playback" program, but have
to first move the files to a desktop folder, and then read them from that
folder into your display program. I don't know why this is so, but it is
true with my music transcription program, so it may also be true with your
photo playback software.
ian lincoln - 30 Jun 2005 15:50 GMT
Resolution and file size may be the problem. Too high and most players
can't cope. i think dvd format is somewhere around 760x520. So your 3000x
2500 scans won't look any better than the resampled 760x520 ones. Once you
have resampled to this size if you set your program wrong the file size has
remained the same. You want to set it so that the file gets reduced along
with the resolution.
Some dvd players will play cds direct from data. Some do better if your
files have been converted to a vcd slideshow. In which case vcd
resolution(whatever that is ) is all you require. Don't forget a standard
tv res is even lower than standard vga 640x480. It may be different in the
USA but not by any significant amount. High def tv is a different story i
don't know the res or how prominant it is on either side of the atlantic.