Self Playing VCD

[apeg]

I remeber YEARS ago creating a VCD that for windows had a small little player built into the VCD... but its been so long i cant remeber and i cant seem to find any how to's to refresh my memory

Example you put the VCD into a windows coomputer... and it would pop up this little player and the VCD would go.. menus if you had the... so on...

Any remeber?

[vcdman2005]

yep i know it it is called power vcd

[adam]

There was a program that could do that, I think it was called I-On-VCD or something like that...but nowadays its best to just use Media Player Classic for autoplay needs. You can store it on the disk and just write a simple autorun script. It has its own mpeg1 decoder or you can include a 3rd party one if you want. Everything is stored on the disk so it will play in any computer.

[sanjayk]

You can use Roxio VideoDisk Player for creating autorun VCDs.

Simply create a file called AUTORUN.INF with following lines

[autorun]
OPEN=vcd_play.exe

Place both the INF file and VCD_PLAY.EXE file in the root folder when creating VCD like shown below. This is a Nero snapshot.



And you have an autorun VCD.
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[sanjayk]

Download

VCD_PLAY.EXE

[Hyper Shinchan]

Ehmm, Sanjayk the lin doesn't work with me; can't be it's wrong?

[sanjayk]

Actually I tried to upload the EXE file. Maybe it didnt upload properly. Now I have compressed it as RAR to save space.

vcd_play.rar

[sanjayk]

Hmmm this is also not working. Am I doing something wrong. I am using the & tags to upload a file.

[sanjayk]

So, I guess I need to put the file on a public web server. Ok

[deckard8]

Boot and auto-play video files direct from cd using mini-Linux dist.

http://www.cinemix.coe.pl/index-en.php

[sanjayk]

Now you can download the VCD_PLAY.EXE compressed as VCD_PLAY.RAR from my site

http://www.sanjaykumar.info/sw.htm

[jimmalenko]

As adam mentioned, you could always just include a copy of the Windows Media Player Classic EXE file, and put an autorun.inf file containing:

[autorun]
open=MPC.EXE /play /close Movie.mpg

@sanjayk:
vcd_play.rar

There ya go

[sanjayk]

Yes MPC is also a good choice considering it is small in size. VCD_PLAY will automatically recognize the VCD file structure on the disk and play the DAT files. While if using MPC, full path name for the files may have to be given.

@Jimmalenko
If you have uploaded this vcd_play.rar file, kindly tell me how. I tried 2 times and could not !!

[jimmalenko]

EDIT: redundant post

[jimmalenko]

The trick is to post whatever you're going to post (in the way of text or whatever), and then browse to the file you want to upload, hit submit, and upload it initially without linking to it at all. Then edit the post and put [*url]filename.ext[/url] (without the *, naturally) in your post, and hit submit. Hey presto, the file is now linked properly !

[sanjayk]

Thanx Jim.