cd-rom auto-start?

jmpatrick wrote on 3/7/2002, 8:25 PM

OK, I've created a 4 minute music video using V.V.3, and rendered it as a WMV file. It looks, sounds, and plays great. Using FrontPage 2000, I built a simple HTML-based CD-ROM "presentation," which has my video inserted on one of the pages. The whole thing is basically 4 simple HTML pages. What I'd like to do is burn this on to a CDR and create some sort of AUTORUN.INF file that will automatically open the users web browser and load the INDEX.HTML page on the disc when it's inserted into a CD-ROM. Can this be done? I have VV3, CD Architect, and CD Creator.

Next dilemma: I'd also like to include an additional song on the same CD that will play in a standard CD player (that isn't part of the multimedia thing).

Any suggestions??

Thanks!

jp

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Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2002, 9:24 PM

Shhhhh ... you didn't hear me say this ... but if you've gotten a "Content CD" with any of your Sonic Foundry products, take a look at their autorun.inf and sflaunch.exe files.

Oh, and i was never here ... ;)

Cheesehole wrote on 3/7/2002, 9:58 PM

this one's easy :)

look at other autorun.inf files from other CDs as a reference. it's just a text file that sits in the root folder of the CD-ROM. Windows looks at the file when you insert a CD and runs whatever is in the "run=file.exe" parameter. use notepad to make a file that contains the following text:

[autorun]
open=your-program-file.exe

then save it as autorun.inf and make sure it ends up in the root folder of your CD-R.

the only limitation is, you have to launch an exe file. you can't launch the HTML file directly. there are some freely downloadable exe files that will act as a 'middle man' to launch your HTM file (or any other file but most of the time people want to launch a HTML interface type of thing)

this one worked perfectly for me:
http://www.duckware.com/winopen.html

just place it in the root of your cd along with the autorun.inf and your autorun.inf file should look like this:

[autorun]
open=winopen \your-html-file.htm

that's probably how they did it on the SF content cd too, so you could just do as Chienworks said and use their file if it's just for personal use.

- ben (cheesehole!)

jmpatrick wrote on 3/8/2002, 11:39 AM

Thanks Cheese...
Works like a charm!

jp