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by oz_media

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Okay, I choose discussions because while I do have a question, I also want opinions based on user experiences and general know how.

Project: Make an Autoplay CD with company info, manufacturer info, web links, brochures, price lists etc. That part I've done.
The disk is for clients and I also want it to be used as an A/V demo disk.

I have a 4 minute DVD loop I want to add. The project will be on CDR though, not DVD. I assume I need to firstly convert to AVI (I need to retain high def audio so I need the WAV to stay raw). Video definition is not REALLY important however I'd like it to still look decent. The entire DVD file is under 200MB, so if there's a way to retain it,I have room.

I have used AutoPLay Media studio to create the PC portionof the disk, which also inserts the autoplay file.

Is there a way this can be put into a DVD player for the A/V portion f the disk, without the autoplay function screwing it up?

Just not sure about how I should go about it, any info or even guesses/ideas or theories would me very welcome.

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by nicknielsen

This would give you enough compression to fit the file onto the CD. Most current video players, including QuickTime, RealOne, and Windows Media Player (WM9 or higher) provide native support for the MPEG-4 format.

These articles provide more help and background.
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-106.html (provides a list of stand-alone players and MP4 codecs
http://www.mp4converter.net/guides/copy-dvd-video-ro-cd-rom-1.html (discussion of how to encode DVD video to MP4).

Hope this helps. Good luck with your project.

by oz_media

Space is not an issue, as I noted theentire VOB is only 178MB ( 4MB loop ). I also need better compression if any, then MPEG-4. The audio is and needs to remain audiophile quality as it is a speaker test track.

I have actually tried it in mpeg 4 already (as with most other formats also) but didn't like it at all.

I want to keep the DVD files as a VOB. Just hav eit so that the autorun for the customer access portion only runs in a PC with auoplay but doesn't interfere with the DVD players autoplay feature to read the VOBS.

I was thinking/hoping a simple player check in the autorun file could do it.

by jaqui

to embed the video into a flash projector and have the autoplay run that OZ.

Create a total presentation in flash with the audio and video elements as well as the company info and links to website etc, save it as a stand alone flash player file and link the autoplay to run it.

won't work on a media player like a dvd vcd player hooked to a TV, for that, creating a VCD [ Video CD ] and using the menus to present the rest of the information as well would be the way to go. This would also then play automatically on any computer, as long as you don't make it require a specific video player.

by oz_media

It's funny that you, of all people, would recommend using FLASH. :D In this case it is a good application of FLASH though. I'm not sure about the audio, I didn't realize FLASH could convert into a lossless audio format. Haven't played with it in a while, even though I have had FLASH MX installed for ages. I just got so sick of seeing FLASH files that I ditched using it myself.

I'll look into it as a menu option perhaps.

On another note, you use OpenOffice don't you?

If so, after upgrading to OO 2.3, I've had probs opening older docs. For example, the extension isn't recognized and teh file gets the generic wondows icon. When Open Office tries to open it, it asks for the character set. A guess always ends up opening the file as a couple of lines of scrambled code.

Are these recoverable? Perhaps a file extension needs to be added? Though I have tried renaming with common OO extensions.

Cheers, I am not sure about the FLASH idea but it is a new one, I'll look into that option.

by jaqui

I don't support flash websites, but for a multimedia presentation it is a good tool.

hmm, I've not had that problem with older office documents, but I actually use K Office rather than Open Ofice.

charset either windows 1254 or iso-8859-1 should work. The new version of OO does try to use UTF-8 by default I think.

by oz_media

Well, I decided that due to limited time, I will offer an MPEG-4 compressed verion as a sampler from the disk menu itself. I will also include the DVD files in VOB format with a "click here" to copy/burn to VOB's button. Should do the trick.

What I was really hoping was to just leave the disk as is and add VOB's somehow that, if placed in a standard DVD, it would simply read and play the DVD files. This would normally work, but when it is inserted in a PC, the Autoplay starts the menu disk and the VOBs also trigger the PC to open the default DVD player.

Thanks for the ideas though, I think I will do it as FLASH again next time, it just doesn't work with the proprietary menu studio I am using this time.

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