Is it possible to burn a CD having both pictures and videos and will it be easy
for a computer illiterate person to see both of these easily? thanks.

Yes and no.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

annonymous wrote:
> Is it possible to burn a CD having both pictures and videos and will it be easy
> for a computer illiterate person to see both of these easily? thanks.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:04:01 -0800, annonymous
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Is it possible to burn a CD having both pictures and videos


Pictures are simply a particular type of file, and videos are simply
another type of file. They are two of the many types of file that
exist, including others like word processing files, spreadsheets,
music files, program files, and so on.

CD burning software just burns files; it doesn't know and doesn't care
what type of file any of those files are. Since you are asking whether
a CD can contain two of those types of files, the answer is yes. It
can contain any number of file types, not just one type, and not even
just the two types you mention.


> and will it be easy
> for a computer illiterate person to see both of these easily? thanks.


That's a difficult question to answer, for two reasons:

1. Computer illiteracy isn't an off-or-off situation. Literacy
(whether computer literacy or any other type) can be great or small,
and everything in between. Is a first-great child who just learned to
read literate or illiterate? He's probably much better at reading than
a kindergartner, but much poorer than most sixth-graders. And between
the first-grader and the sixth-grader, there are lots of other levels
of skill. The same is true of computer literacy, so it's very
difficult to be sure I know what degree of illiteracy you are asking
about.

2. If the computer-illiterate person owns no computer and has never
touched one, no, it would not be easy for him to see both of these
easily. But if you are talking about someone who owns a computer, but
is just not very good at using it, it depends very greatly on what
software he has installed. If he has appropriate software installed to
view the specific kinds of picture and video files on the CD, yes,
it's very easy to see both of them. All he would have to do is
double-click a file of either type.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"annonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news5B3F3D1-6644-46FA-A6BB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is it possible to burn a CD having both pictures and videos and will it be
> easy
> for a computer illiterate person to see both of these easily? thanks.

Since video files can be quite large (much too large to fit a CD),
you really need to consider a DVD.

Jim

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:04:01 -0800, annonymous
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to burn a CD having both pictures and videos
>
>
> Pictures are simply a particular type of file, and videos are simply
> another type of file. They are two of the many types of file that
> exist, including others like word processing files, spreadsheets,
> music files, program files, and so on.
>
> CD burning software just burns files; it doesn't know and doesn't care
> what type of file any of those files are. Since you are asking whether
> a CD can contain two of those types of files, the answer is yes. It
> can contain any number of file types, not just one type, and not even
> just the two types you mention.
>
>
>> and will it be easy
>> for a computer illiterate person to see both of these easily? thanks.
>
>
> That's a difficult question to answer, for two reasons:
>
> 1. Computer illiteracy isn't an off-or-off situation. Literacy
> (whether computer literacy or any other type) can be great or small,
> and everything in between. Is a first-great child who just learned to
> read literate or illiterate? He's probably much better at reading than
> a kindergartner, but much poorer than most sixth-graders. And between
> the first-grader and the sixth-grader, there are lots of other levels
> of skill. The same is true of computer literacy, so it's very
> difficult to be sure I know what degree of illiteracy you are asking
> about.
>
> 2. If the computer-illiterate person owns no computer and has never
> touched one, no, it would not be easy for him to see both of these
> easily. But if you are talking about someone who owns a computer, but
> is just not very good at using it, it depends very greatly on what
> software he has installed. If he has appropriate software installed to
> view the specific kinds of picture and video files on the CD, yes,
> it's very easy to see both of them. All he would have to do is
> double-click a file of either type.
>
>
Ken's answer provides more details, but he pretty much agrees with
Leonard's yes and no response.

LOL

Bill