Hello,

I want to be able to burn a VCD that will autorun on both PCs and MACs without having to install any standalone players. So autorun media player on PCs and autorun quicktime for MACs and play on a DVD player.

Using Video CD creator I've been able to create the PC version by creating an autorun file that plays the file "_play.asx" which has the following script:

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<ASX version = "3.0">

<TITLE>Video CD</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>For our site click</ABSTRACT>
<MOREINFO HREF = "http://www.blah.com" />

<ENTRY>
<TITLE>Puppy</TITLE>
<REF HREF = "MPEGAV/music01.dat" />
</ENTRY>

</ASX>
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The asx file is automatically recoginised by media player and thus executed. It also works fine on the DVD player.

Both these files are in the root of the VCD and were specified under the fields 'Copyright and Abstract' under 'Video CD Properties - Special Files'. Visit http://www.pcphotovideo.com/burning1.htm for more detail.

My problem then is to get the same effect on a MAC using quicktime to play the music.dat file. Now I know that Toast can burn VCDs for both PC and MAC but will the VCD autorun using the default players?

I haven't had the chance to test it and basically need to know before buying a MAC.

I basically don't want the user to install a standalone VCD player and just use the players that come by default with their OS.

Thank-you for you time

Wing