Question bout multi Movies on one DVD

[GMZombie]

is this possible for me to put multiple moves like for examplke i have a lot of the tv show Sealab2021 cartoon and i want them all on a dvd. can i do it and make a menu to watch them>or have like 2 or 3 divx movies on one dvd?

[lostbee]

Yes it is possible to do, i got over 30 tom and jerry episodes on 1 dvd

ok first u need a little tool called TMPEGEnc to convert ur divx files so they are dvd complient.
theres a guide for it here http://www.polarhome.com/~afonic/tmpegenc.htm

after u convert your files use TMPEGEnc dvd author to create your, u put ur converted files in here and create menus once u finished doing that u have to shink the complieted dvd biffore u burn it to a disk, use dvd2one or dvd shrink to do this, then burn to a dvd and u can watch ur disc on any stand alone dvd player.
have a look at the guides to your left if u need any more help on doing this good luck

[Silver Zero]

I'm trying to do this, too, but I want to make this clear: I DON'T WANT TO CONVERT THE AVI FILES!!! You might say, "Hey stupid, you HAVE to convert them if you're going to burn them to a DVD." Well, in most cases, yes, and I understand that, but that's not quite what I'm doing. I want to take several (i.e. a season's worth) episodes of particular TV shows, which are encoded as avi's, and burn them onto a DATA DVD disc. What? Data? Stupid? No, I just want the files on there, because I'm playing them on a PC-based system that can play avi files. So the only problem now is, I want an autorun file setup so that I put the DVD in the drive, it autoruns and launches a specified software program (like WinDVD), and then I want a menu to come up so I can select which episode I'd like to play. Just like a DVD, but with avi's instead.

Can this be done? (I'm not trying to hijack this thread, it sounds like we're looking for the same sort of thing.) Thanks!

[bottle-necked]

Instead of a DVD selection menu you need an autorun.exe program. I ran a quick search with google.com for CD AutoRun Menu and many applications are available and several of those are freeware. You should be able to find one you like fairly easily.

Good luck.

[Silver Zero]

The problem I've found is that I can get an autorun script to recognize the DVD (as an iso, anyway), and even launch any program I want, but it won't load the file and start playing it. Any thoughts on this?

[autorun]
open=C:\Program Files\Whatever \movie.avi

[tberte]

HEY LOSTBEE

Your Tom & Jerry project is exactly what I'm trying to do with some Ducktales episodes I have. I'm guessing you pulled them off of some old VHS tapes, correct?

Can you help me out?

[lostbee]

Yeah cool, i can help im converting them from old vhs and stuff like that and stuff i got off the tv,
if u want some more help email me lost_bee@hotmail.com and we could chat over yahoo or msn or something
im also doing a dvd with old episodes of thundercats, he-man and mysterious cities of gold

[bottle-necked]

The problem I've found is that I can get an autorun script to recognize the DVD (as an iso, anyway), and even launch any program I want, but it won't load the file and start playing it. Any thoughts on this?

[autorun]
open=C:\Program Files\Whatever \movie.avi

That is not what I meant by an 'autorun.exe' program. I've made [autorun] inf files before and they work ok by to call a selection menu like you said above you need a real 'autorun menu creation program' then create the autorun.inf file on the disk to call it up.

I downloaded one last night after posting here and played with it awhile. I think it's a pretty nice one. 'Menu Quick Builder'. Lets you put a background image, small button images, buttons, etc to run the files on your CD. I think you simply edit the setup.ini file and put in your menu commands. Looks easy to do. This should be what you're looking for.

The only problem I can see if autorunning a video file. I've written simple autorun.inf files before and got them to run video files and html files from a CD but it's a little different than just calling up a normal program file. Here is an example of a simple autorun.inf file calling an HTML file to run from a CD I created awhile back. The HTML was a slideshow I created named "800x600 Viewer.htm"


[autorun]
open=C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE f:\800x6~12.htm


As you can see I had to call the exact location of IExplorer.exe from the hdd, then my CD-R drive letter then the dos format (8x3) name of my file. A more simpler name would be a good idea here. I don't think I could get long names to work properly in the command. And, using in a different computer that didn't have drive F: it wouldn't work. I think I had to call the exact drive letter for the inf file to work properly. But this was when I was using WinME. Xp will probably except the long names.

But this only gives you (1) choice. Not much of a menu. The Autorun Menu program will give you choices of video files to run, then I think you will need to edit the programs INI file to get it to work with those video files. You will need to link to "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" instead of my linking to IExplorer.

I would download the menu creater program and create a very simple 2 button menu. Put 2 short video files on a CD-RW with the menu program, edit the menu's INI file and see if I could get a sample working. Then I would try the finished product. You will probably learn enough by that point to make a nice project out of it.

Good luck.

[jimmalenko]

...then my CD-R drive letter then the dos format (8x3) name of my file. A more simpler name would be a good idea here. I don't think I could get long names to work properly in the command...

I think you would have to have open=" <commands> " wouldn't you ?

Most command-line programs need the talking marks if you wish to use long filenames. I don't know whether it'll work in this instance but worth a shot.

[bottle-necked]

I think you're right about the long file names.

But, what I was trying to get across is. open=command is ok for running a program that's on the disk like a setup.exe program, but calling a hdd program to open a file off the disk I don't think I could get it working like that. (If I remember right). I had to call the hdd program then (space) the media file, in that instance the HTML file. Just calling a media file like "open=video.mpg" I don't thing it will autorun. I haven't tried it lately but the way I remember I had to call the program then the file, thats the reason for the drive letter. (F:). Just calling the filename wouldn't work either. I guess it was looking for the file "in the path only".(?) I don't really know. But getting it to autorun was harder than I though it would be.

I made a menu with that autorun menu program I mentioned above and it has commands for opening media files, so manual editing of it's setup.ini wouldn't be necessary. Why I was think that was because I read where one of those free programs required that.

I got it working after a couple attempts. I should of read the help file though, I think that would of been easier. There are lots of those menu programs available. Finding one you like is going to be the hard part I think.

Good luck.

[tberte]

LOSTBEE...you out there anywhere? I'd like to get started on this.

Please email me....or can anybody else help out?

I'd like to get like 30 episodes to a disc like Lostbee did, but of Ducktales.