auto run video CD

[Enrique Orozco]

Vegas is a great NLE for editing and making great looking videos on a wide variety of formats …. for an autorun video CD you have to determine what type of final product is best for your needs … We’ve made several types of CD/DVD-ROMs (with autorun, which is not from Vegas) with videos on different formats (WMV, MOV, mpeg1 or 2) and even flash video (not encoded with Vegas), it all depends on what do you (or your client) need and also what authoring environment are you going to use (data only disc, flash, director ?) …. also, Vegas can render to the so-called “videoCD” std. under the mpeg1 templates, which “was” good before the DVD burning capabilities appears …… Vegas makes the video for your show and you decide the way to make the show (DVD, CD-ROM, videoCD, DVD-ROM, web video….) and for that, maybe you’ll need some other tools…..

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s the method I used several years ago when I wanted to create an AutoRun CD.

On the root of the CD:
autorun.inf
mplayer2.exe
myvideo.mpg

Use Notepad to create the autorun file.
Make sure to do a “Save as type” – “All Files” when saving it or else “.txt” gets added to the filename.

The autorun file reads exactly as follows.
Pay close attention to the extra spaces after some words – they threw me off the first time I attempted this as well:

[autorun]
open=mplayer2.exe /fullscreen /play /close \myvideo.mpg

OR

[autorun]
open=mplayer2.exe /fullscreen /play /close myvideo.mpg

leaving out the backslash before the video filename.

Substitute the name of your file for “myvideo.mpg”.
This will make it play full screen on the monitor.
BTW, mplayer2.exe is MediaPlayer 6.4 and is only 8K in size.
In comparison, MediaPlayer 11 is 65K in size.
BTW, even if you have XP (not sure about Vista), version 6.4 is still on your computer in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player.

[Rob James]

Very interesting and useful information Mike, thanks! But I’d like clarity on two things. Aren’t your two examples exactly the same, and don’t you mean forward slash not backslash? Maybe I’m missing something here, but I just want to understand it completely. Thanks.

Rob,
https://www.robjames.net/

[Mike Kujbida]

Thanks for catching that Rob.
For whatever reason, the copied text didn’t come across as expected.
I’m trying to fgure out how to do it properly but, right now, I have to get to a shoot.
I’ll be back soon.

[Mike Kujbida]

I can’t get the syntax to display a backslash so I’ll direct anyone interested to the thread I refer to below.

Rob, this was done several years ago and I can’t remember why I used a backslash.
If you’re interested, I got this from a thread I started called autoplay frustration on the rec.video.desktop newsgroup.
Look for the postings by Vance Green as he’s the one who solved it for me.

[Stephen Mann]

>>Use Notepad to create the autorun file.
>>Make sure to do a “Save as type” – “All Files” when saving it or else “.txt” gets added to the filename.

Or, enclose the filename in quotes: Save As “autorun.inf”