You can burn a video CD (VCD) of your slide shows to share with friends and family. To create a VCD, you must have a CD-RW drive or a DVD-RW drive and use only CD-R/RW discs. You can view a VCD on your television using a DVD player that supports the VCD format, or you can view it on your computer using a CD/DVD disc drive and software that can play VCD-format files.
Video CD files are encoded in MPEG-1 format with specific settings. Photoshop Elements creates VCDs from slide shows in two steps. First, it writes a WMV to the hard disk for every slideshow in a VCD project. Then it converts the WMV files to VCD, and burns them to the CD-R or CD-RW in a folder structure necessary for VCD playback.