This is probably a simple question but it is one that is driving me crazy. OK I made a MPEG movie now all I want to do is attach a autorun file so that when evey I or more so my computer challenged friends put the CD in it automatically starts playing the File. I am not sure if it maters but it is a windows media file. I certainly appreciate any help. Thank you for your time...
Phil
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the problem with this is, when you use Autorun, you can only launch an application - not a file.
you can launch a player, but you can't launch the file in the player.
there are workarounds, but it seems like they will either work on Win9x systems, or Win 2000/XP systems, but not reliably on both.
there are some third-party solutions to the problem which I'm looking into (I need to launch a web page from a disc) - once I dig up the list I compiled, I'll post some links.- housepig
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I have a small program that you can put on a DVD along with a movie, html file, whatever, and an AUTORUN.INF file. It will let you start any file for which Windows has a file type association. So any file you can double click on to lauch can be started from a CD or DVD automatically. Of course the behaviour will be different on systems with different file assosiations. For example, an html file will launch with Internet Explorer on some systems, Opera on others, or Netscape on others.
I'm pretty sure it works on all versions of Windows since 95.
I'll see if I can dig it up and let you know how to get it. Does somebody have an ftp server? -
Just a forewarning here...but depending on how big the mpeg is, it may not playback very well from the CD.
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I found the program. I tried it with several file times, mpg, htm, doc, txt and all worked under Windows XP. The program is called Autorun.exe. To use it you need to make an Autorun.inf file on your CD/DVD and include Autorun.exe and the target file(s). Autorun.inf should contain the following (it's just a text file -- you can edit it with Notepad):
[autorun]
open=AutoRun.exe Movie.mpg
Change Movie.mpg to whatever file you want to start automatically. If the file name has spaces in it you must add quotes around the name:
[autorun]
open=AutoRun.exe "Name With Spaces.mpg"
If anyone wants the program (it's only 36 KB) let me know and we'll find some way to tranfer it... -
I just tried it your way junkmalle and all it did when I put the CD in is it opened the drive that the disk is in and showed me the file, but it di dnot start playing the MPEG. My MPEG is only 131 mb, so it is not that big.
I do not know, if there is any way you can send me that program that you have I would appreciate it greatly.
Thanks again to everyone for the help...
Hoepfully I will get this figured out.
Phil -
Hi
I wrote a programe a while ago to launch WEBpages from a cd then found it will also run ANY file type on the clients machine aslong as they have a file association for that type of file
http://www.roderz.uklinux.net/freeloader.htm
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Thanks Roderz, I tried it and I cannto get it to work. I am sure that there is something that I am doing wrong... god only knows. Thanks again
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So what DID it do and what did you do?
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Easy to test witout burning
put your mpg file in a new dir
put Freeloader.exe into same dir
make FreeLoader.ini, first line should be name of your file (case sensative if I remember) save into same dir
dbl click on Freeloader.exe and your file should run.
If this works then make an autorun.inf file and save into same dir
autorun.inf should look like this.....
Code:[autorun] open = FreeLoader.exe icon = FreeLoader.exe,0
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I just tried it your way junkmalle
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