Hello!

Since I started, I have printing out paper color copies of installation instructions to go with my kits. With the Angel Eyes, I decided to do video, which is great- definitely the best kind of instruction possible. The reson for this is because I have added it up and over the past 1 1/2 years, I have printed more than 400 color printouts! That's a lot of money!

So now I am sending out CD's with the installation instructions. It's fine but basically you have to put it in your computer open it up and there's the .wmv file. The files are about 100 MB each.

I'd like to send them out so that I only need one CD for GK Tibs (6 movies for each lighting kit, 1 movie for LED gills, 3 movies for angel eyes). And then I want one CD for RD Tiburons.


Now:
Does anyone know how to make an autoplay menu system, so that the customer can select the products he/she has purchased and then view the correct videos stored on the CD? This would be much easier than digging through the CD and videos in a directory to find what you need.

Any help or insight would be great, because I have been looking around and although I'm good with computers, the programs I have downloaded are just confusing and old...


Thanks!
Paul

 

Autorun.inf Editor - Freeware
http://autorun.moonvalley.com/

Instructions to create your own simple Autorun.inf file using Notepad:
http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818804

1. Open notepad

2. Type the following:
[autorun]
open=Filename.wmv
icon=Filename.ico

3. Save file as "Autorun.inf" in the root directory


I'm not too sure about what you want to do. Do you want to create a batch file for each folder? So that the user can go to the folder they want, click on one file, and it will open up all relevant files?


i.e., I click on the 'majik' folder and it will open all WMV and JPG files related to majik? Or do you just want one autoplay file for when the CD is inserted into a computer?

The first would be if you want to create one CD and let people find what they want in the CD. The second would be if you wanted to customize each CD's [autoplay] for that particular user.

hm.... after further review, it seems that you want a program to run when the CD is inserted, and that program will allow users to click on what they want (i.e., insert CD, screen pops up on computer with 4 choices, the user selects their choice and the proper video starts playing). For that, I would write a simple, quick VB program that links to each of the videos. You're wanting an intro screen (program) to autoplay when CD is inserted.

 

Nero will make DVDs with menus. You can burn a DVD to a CD to be used on a computer. There's ways you can get it on the internet for free *cough* *limewire* *cough* *bit comet* *cough*