Can you autorun a video file on a CD?

[Dj Petro]

I have a video file that I want to autorun in a player when it is inserted into the computer. Can you do this? I haven't had much luck.
Thanks

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[FOO]

Autorun the player not the video

[housepig]

you can autorun the file, but if your file type isn't associated with a player already, you are still going to have to choose an application to play the file.

[Dj Petro]

Does anyone have a sample file that show how to setup a autorun to load a file in a specific player. I didn't know you could tell it what player to launch with it. Thanks

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[mikesbytes]

The answer depends entirely on what you are trying to acheive.
1. Check out https://www.videohelp.com/autorun However, be warned that the media player varies from PC to PC so you may have to refine the command to get it to work on the target PC.

2. If you want to run the file on any "Microsoft" PC, then the best bet is to include the player on the CD and execute the player with the video as a parameter to the player. For example you could use infraview, but there are serveral others that will also do the job. Don't pick on the needs installation as this may deter the recipient. Also most media players will require a codec installed on the PC if the file is a mpeg2 (svcd or dvd).

3. An alternative to having a media player is to embedd the video in a web page and have the web page booted. This should work fine for mpeg1 (vcd) files, except you will need a copy of the video on the disk with a .mpg suffix and therefor will fit around half the video you would of had.

Some info may be of interest at https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=166425

Tell me what interests you and I'll provide an example.

[Cornucopia]

Please read some of my past posts on the subject (there are a number of them). The go into plenty of detail about all the options.

"ALL YOUR QUESTIONS SHALL BE ANSWERED" --oracle

HTH,
Scott

[Dj Petro]

I had success using the full path to mplayer but doing like in the autorun section didn't work at all. I only issue I fear now is that it will not work with other operating systems.

Q?
What is a codec that is universal in mplayer. I don't want anyone having codec issues or have to d/l one. Thanks in advance

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[mikesbytes]

If you create a MPEG 1 video of around VCD standard, most PC's will be able to play it using media player. I think the codec for MPEG 1 comes with all versions of media player. Check out my forum post https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=166425. I resolved this by embeddig the video in an HTML and it worked on a P133.

The problem with Windows Media Player, is that there are 2 versions mplayer & mplayer2 which are placed in different places in different versions of windows. So it would be difficult to figure out a command line that works on all cases.

I resolved this by embedding the video in HTML. But the problem with this is it needs a .htm suffix and therefor I couldn't use the .dat version forcing me to have 2 copies of the video on the same disk.

I suppect that the only way to make it compatible with all microsoft platforms is to put the player on the disk. You could try infraview.