DivX Menus?

[Dwyzane]

I've found plenty of resources and different software for making an autorun file and menu for DivX, but they only offer this for one movie file. For instance, when you make your autorun you have chapters in your Menu, correct. But these chapters are pointed to certain frames of that particular movie.

What I am wanting to do is make a menu for a DivX containing, three or more movies. Such as three or four South Park Episodes, and have the menu autorun. Something simple, doesn't have to be fancy, but maybe I can teach myself that later. Anyways, A menu with three options.....

1. Play Episode 1
2. Play Episode 2
3. Play Episode 3

I'd like to throw extra features into it, but I need to get used to this first.

If there is anyone who can help me out or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate this very much. Thank You.

[DivXExpert]

Howabout using macromedia Director or Flash?

[Dwyzane]

Because I still dont know how to go about making the ini. for autorun. The only flash program I have used is Swish. I've used that for my vcd menus and burned it with EZ CD Creator. I can do VCD's with a menu but not DivX. Anybody else can help me?

[DivXExpert]

For the .inf, very simple.
Open up Notepad, then type this:
[autorun]
open=whateverexecutablefileyoumade.exe
icon=whatevericonyoumade.ico (you don't have to have the icon)

Thats it.

Make a thing with flash or director, then create a .exe projection.

whala.

[DivXExpert]

in notepad, save as autorun.inf

NOT .txt

[Dwyzane]

Thank you for your help. Doing it in flash will be better for me anyways, but I'm still a little confused. I can do the .ini no problem. I understand that. What I need to know is:

For the buttons I make what kind of action should I tell Flash to take in order to execute the command to play that certain movie?

[DivXExpert]

lol, time to take out the old action script book.

and its an .inf

NOT .ini

if you name it .ini it will get screwed up. And won't work.

[Dwyzane]

Sorry. I've been browsing about and I've found one site that says you can only launch EXE's in the projector. http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/07_launchapp_01.htm

If this is the case I have an alternative, but it still lingers with question. After all this research maybe a guide could come together.

[Nitemare]

I've pondered this question for a few days, but had no time to test yet. I am also completely ignorant about making autorun.inf files as I've never done them but I DO have the beginnings of an idea that may work... the experts may flame or add to this idea as they will...

Using the K-I-S-S approach (Keep It Simple, Stupid) I was wondering if it was possible to auto-launch an HTML file that would contain an image map linking to the AVIs. Naturally this image could be grabbed right from the DVD or custom made.

I've been meaning to experiment with this but really have no time. Clicking an HTML link should open Media Player in most instances, correct? It would soon become apparent to anyone missing the codec that there's a problem, and a "install codec" link may also be possible that would just browse the cd where you have the codec stored, perhaps?

Again, I have no experience with making an autorun.inf file, but is this possible? If so, it seems the easiest approach to me. Any thoughts?

[Dwyzane]

Anybody here with some Visual Basic or hardcoding experience? I've got a way to manipulate this projection, but I need a little coding done ir an example of some. Okay let me explain.....

First of I'm making a DivX menu from Flash 5, and use this for an .EXE projection. Now I've read that the .exe Projection will only open or execute an .exe(Whether this is true or not I don't know). But there is an alternative. Read here http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/07_launchapp_01.htm.

With that said I can set this up pretty simply, and have it work from my cd drive. It's really simple work, but I want to expand my options here. Instead of the .exe, that flashgeek has so graciously provided, pointing to my cd rom drive label, I want to set it up to search out the cdrom drive.

This is hard for me to explain so I'll give the best examples I can.
For instance, I have to point directly to where the file is located, which would be my cdrom drive labeled as (G:). But on others people's cpu's this may be the (D:) drive.

If I place the cd in my G: drive everything will work find. But if I put it into my F: drive, which is my dvd player, nothing happens. So what I'm wanting to know is how can I tell the cpu to point to the cdrom drive. This can be hardcoded. Please if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[DivXExpert]

if the exe is in the root folder of the cd rom just say
[autorun]
open=bla.exe


If the exe is in folder bla
[autorun]
open=bla\bla.exe

do not do
[autorun]
open=G:\bla.exe

or
[autorun]
open=G:\bla\bla.exe

see how it works?