AVI Autorun

[punky01]

Quick question-

I have a presentation for work in .AVI format, and need to burn it to CD and have it autorun in media player when it is mounted. Anyone know how to do that?

[Galen_of_Edgewood]

I honestly don't know if this'll work, because I'm just kinda making it up. http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

The code is inbetween the dashes.

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[autorun]
open=c:\"program files\windows media player"\mplayer2.exe (yourfilename).avi
icon=c:\"program files\windows media player"\mplayer2.exe
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Save the file as autorun.inf

I honestly don't know if this will work, but it just might. I hope that you are using a CD-RW, if you want to try this. I really hope that this works. (I altered code from what I saw on a Microsoft autorun file.)

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"You're mother's a fraggin' aardvark!"

[punky01]

I tried something similar (edited an existing autorun.inf) with no luck- do you have to designate location (a little leery of this considering that cd drive letters can vary from system to system)?

[Galen_of_Edgewood]

Originally posted by punky01:
I tried something similar (edited an existing autorun.inf) with no luck- do you have to designate location (a little leery of this considering that cd drive letters can vary from system to system)?

I honestly don't know. Here's an option. Use the ./ to designate this directory.

Like this:
open=c:\"program files\windows media player"\mplayer2.exe ./(yourfilename).avi

Sorry that I don't know for sure.

[EDIT] Just found this link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/shellcc/shell/Shell_basics/Autoplay_cmds.htm

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"You're mother's a fraggin' aardvark!"

[This message has been edited by Galen_of_Edgewood (edited January 15, 2001).]

[punky01]

Yep- I'm pretty stumped as to what is going wrong, so I ended up going with using this utility: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/1125/software/cda.html#help

It worked beautifully, and gave me a nice autorun menu with graphics.

Thanks for all of your help, though!