I have created a photo story and 'created a video cd'. I want to include
some additional pictures that were not a part of the photo story
(intentionally) on the same CD. There is still room on the CD but when I try
to copy the additional pictures I receive the message that 'the disk in the
dribe is not a writable cd'

What gives? I would like to send these as Christmas presents but don't want
to create 2 cd's.

Is there any solution?

The answer is no.
You can add pictures to a CD, but not to a VCD.

"Sairy" <Sairy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CC99BA7C-0745-4640-8C4C-A240A8FC34CF@microsoft.com...
> I have created a photo story and 'created a video cd'. I want to include
> some additional pictures that were not a part of the photo story
> (intentionally) on the same CD. There is still room on the CD but when I
try
> to copy the additional pictures I receive the message that 'the disk in
the
> dribe is not a writable cd'
>
> What gives? I would like to send these as Christmas presents but don't
want
> to create 2 cd's.
>
> Is there any solution?

What exactly is a VCD?

Is there a workaround for my problem?

"Yves Alarie" wrote:

> The answer is no.
> You can add pictures to a CD, but not to a VCD.
>
> "Sairy" <Sairy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CC99BA7C-0745-4640-8C4C-A240A8FC34CF@microsoft.com...
> > I have created a photo story and 'created a video cd'. I want to include
> > some additional pictures that were not a part of the photo story
> > (intentionally) on the same CD. There is still room on the CD but when I
> try
> > to copy the additional pictures I receive the message that 'the disk in
> the
> > dribe is not a writable cd'
> >
> > What gives? I would like to send these as Christmas presents but don't
> want
> > to create 2 cd's.
> >
> > Is there any solution?
>
>
>

Well, in the title of your post, you created a VCD.
A VCD is a way to copy Photo Story files (or other video files) to a CD so
you can insert it in a DVD player and display the results on a TV. In my
opinion, the results are "poor" and not worth the effort. Photo Story is a
great little program but only when you play the file on your computer
screen, not via a VCD in a DVD player to display on your TV. If you want a
"reasonable" quality on your TV you will need to copy the Photo Story file
to a DVD disk
See this site for info on copying to a DVD:
http://www.papajohn.org/

There is way out.
Instead of making a VCD, simply copy the Photo Story file to a CD-R just
like you would copy any other file to a CD-R, then add any other file to it
as needed.
However, you need to remember that when you make a Photo Story and you save
it, you actually will have two files, with the same name (file name you
selected), but with different extensions.
One will be filename.wp3. This file will be large and will contain all the
pictures you included in your story as well as the music, narration etc.
This is the file you need if you decide to edit the story.
One will be filename.wmv. This file will be much smaller and this is the
file you click on to play the story on your computer screen. Make sure you
copy both files to the CD-R.



"Sairy" <Sairy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C700E2E2-B915-4854-9B05-0645E6127988@microsoft.com...
> What exactly is a VCD?
>
> Is there a workaround for my problem?
>
> "Yves Alarie" wrote:
>
> > The answer is no.
> > You can add pictures to a CD, but not to a VCD.
> >
> > "Sairy" <Sairy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:CC99BA7C-0745-4640-8C4C-A240A8FC34CF@microsoft.com...
> > > I have created a photo story and 'created a video cd'. I want to
include
> > > some additional pictures that were not a part of the photo story
> > > (intentionally) on the same CD. There is still room on the CD but
when I
> > try
> > > to copy the additional pictures I receive the message that 'the disk
in
> > the
> > > dribe is not a writable cd'
> > >
> > > What gives? I would like to send these as Christmas presents but
don't
> > want
> > > to create 2 cd's.
> > >
> > > Is there any solution?
> >
> >
> >

Hi, Sairy,

You can add pictures to a VCD by Photo2VCD Studio. For more details,
check out http://www.photo2vcd.com

I don't think I've explained myself fully.

Here's what I have - a PhotoStory that I've put on a video CD because that's
the only option I can see to be able to view the photostory on a dvd player.
The other option appears to be to save it in a format so that it can be shown
on a computer but I don't think that everyone that I want to send this to has
a computer.

Now I want to add some other digital pictures to the CD that contains the
photostory.

Is this possible? Or is there another way that I can save the photostory to
a CD so that it can be viewed on a DVD?



"Sairy" wrote:

> I have created a photo story and 'created a video cd'. I want to include
> some additional pictures that were not a part of the photo story
> (intentionally) on the same CD. There is still room on the CD but when I try
> to copy the additional pictures I receive the message that 'the disk in the
> dribe is not a writable cd'
>
> What gives? I would like to send these as Christmas presents but don't want
> to create 2 cd's.
>
> Is there any solution?