RCBasher Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 Ok I give up! I think I know how autorun CDs work, but how do I get MyDVD 9 to include an Autorun.inf file (which I can set to run WMP on Widows PCs)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaper1 Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 don't think VCD is mixed mode disc... and if you just burn those folders with the aurorun.inf file, it should work... Also, if you only want to play the VCD on a computer, it shouldn't matter if it's NTSC or PAL... WMP would play both on the comp... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 After checking through my printed reply posts, I found the one I was thinking of and it had to do with "LOOPING" a DVD and NOT "Auto Running" it. Sorry for the mistake. Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCBasher Posted December 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 don't think VCD is mixed mode disc... and if you just burn those folders with the aurorun.inf file, it should work... Just tried that...it works on the PC with WMP...but no longer works as a VCD in my DVD player. The later point doesn't really matter for this project, but the engineer in me wants to crack it anyway! Will do some more experiements. Also, if you only want to play the VCD on a computer, it shouldn't matter if it's NTSC or PAL... WMP would play both on the comp... Yes, the NTSC/PAL bit is for the DVDs that I also needed to make to play in real DVD players to show on real TVs in the US....which may not be multistandard. After checking through my printed reply posts, I found the one I was thinking of and it had to do with "LOOPING" a DVD and NOT "Auto Running" it. Sorry for the mistake. Frank... Thanks for taking the trouble to look. I've got a partial solution (well, a complete one as far as my wife is concerned and I'm supposed to leave it at that ) but now I'm keen to get it fully working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 I'm not sure - I don't think it's possible actually autorun is for data discs - a VCD should be detected by Media Player and it should kick in on its own - I know DVDs do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 That probem has been brought up before as I remember. And I thought that there was a way to make it work. I thought it was ml that had the soluition but I could be wrong. And, I think I just might have made a print of it. I'll go through my files and check. "Old Timers Desease" (heck, I cant even spell it) Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCBasher Posted December 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Thanks for your replies, which at least tell me that I wasn't just missing the obvious - like "click here...and check box here..." in MyDVD and all would be well! VCDs do not seem to inherently launch an application when inserted into a PC..at least the one I made with MyDVD when inserted into my WinXP Pro based PC An Autorun.inf approach should work (here's an example of how to generate the two required files: http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/autoplay_vcd.htm) but I haven't yet found a way of easily adding these to a VCD project before burning. What I might try is to take an ISO file produced by MyDVD, unpack it, add the autorun files and then rebuild an ISO image. Alternatively, allow MyDVD to burn a VCD, open up the disc with Explorer and copy the files across onto another CD-R together with the autorun files...but not convinced this will work as I think a VCD is a mixed mode disc? Although the background is not too relevent to this discussion, this particular project has been a bit of a challenge all the way through, since my wife asked me to "just" transfer some old 8mm film going back to 1954 to DVD....and then when we realised her mother doesn't have a DVD player...or even a VCR, but does have a laptop (no DVD drive in that either)...hence VCD! To make things more complicated, we live in PAL-land and the intended recipients of DVDs and the VCD live in NTSC-land! I modified an 8mm projector to allow still-frame grabbing via a PAL DV camcorder, tweaked the header of the captured avi file to make Adobe Premiere think it was a 29.97fps file (so it wouldn't try adding frames) did a size convert in Premiere and exported the file, then did a 2 to 3 pulldown before finally doing the MPEG encode - I'll find out soon during my visit to the US this Christmas if the DVDs work on real NTSC hardware! At least I know the VCD should work on the laptop....providing I can make it easy for an 88 year-old to launch it in the first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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