My parents have a DVD player that can "play" data CDRs, so I made them a Photo CD with roughly 500 jpegs of family photos. I didn't arrange the pictures in folders; I just "dragged and dropped" them all into the Nero Data Compilation Window at the root of the CDR.

I put the CDR into the player and a menu came up showing the pictures by name. I hit "play" and the CDR proceeded to play as a slide show - so far, so good. At picture #298, the slide show stopped. I went back to the menu and I saw that the menu only went up to picture #298. I tried clicking on the play mode, but I couldn't find any way to access the remaining 200 pictures. When I put the CDR back in my computer, all 500 of the pictures were there. Is it possible that this DVD player can only play 300 pictures per folder? Do I need to rearrange these pictures in folders and smaller groups?

It would be helpful to know what DVD player they own.

Also, try looking in the user manual, if they still have it. Or just try putting the photos into folders. It will only cost you one CD to test if it works then.

Many standalone DVD players have a 300 filename limit per folder / directory. This is especially true for the root directory.

So, yes, you need to put the pictures into various folders, with no more than 298 in each.


Why 298 and not 300?

Because in a typical Windows folder setup that most DVD players support, there will always be two additional filenames: "." and ".."


EDIT: added explanation of why there should be max 298 and not 300.