Interactive Menu For DVD Data Disc?

[tpd146]

I'm burning some movie files to a DVD-R data disc, just to watch back on my pc. i've made an html file in microsoft frontpage with pics and links to the files etc. i wondered if there was any way of making this appear as soon as the disc is inserted, in the same way as game discs launch automatically. i've made a couple of fairly poor efforts by putting an autorun.inf on the disc as well, but with no success. can i actually do this or am i just wasting my time?

[FOO]

What did you put in the autorun file ?

[tpd146]

all i put in it was this

[autorun]
Open=filename.htm
Icon=filename.htm

i checked a few game discs, and some autorun.inf files had more info, relating to music etc., but some had as little information as this

[FOO]

I've done this. Lemme go look.
Possibly stupid question but do the games autorun ?
and are the files .htm or .html ?

[GbMedusa]

I was just looking for the same thing. Here is the quickest (and free!) way I have found without resorting to writing code or batch files.

BrowserCall is a small utility you can load on your CD to open files requiring external applications (like HTML files).

In a nutshell:
1) create an autorun.inf with the following lines

[autorun]
open=browsercall.exe yourfilename

with "yourfilename" being the name of your listing (or whatever file you wish to run).

2) burn your cd with the autorun.inf file, browswercall.exe, and your file listing.

Worked like a charm. If you have a problem with browsercall.exe appearing on the CD's root menu, hide it in a subdirectory (just remember to reference the path correctly for "yourfilename".

[Also, if you are interested AutoRun.inf Maker can make more advanced autorun.inf files.]

[tpd146]

Thanks, that worked very nicely!