[str1]

Hi all.

Can anyone tell me how to get a Quicktime movie on a CD to autoplay when I insert the CD? I'm burning movies and TV shows to CD, and I'd really like to have the movie launch and begin playing in QT when I insert the CD.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers
Scott

[jonny05]

Using Toast, burn a Mac Volume. Under the available options, you have Autostart. Turn it on and choose a file to run. This should rely on 'CD-ROM Autostart' being enabled in the QuickTime Settings Control Panel in order to work. Doesn't have to be a QT Movie, could be an AppleScript app to set up QuickTime just as you like.

Not tried this out, tho.

Hope it helps.

[str1]

Originally posted by jonny05:
<STRONG>Using Toast, burn a Mac Volume. Under the available options, you have Autostart. Turn it on and choose a file to run. This should rely on 'CD-ROM Autostart' being enabled in the QuickTime Settings Control Panel in order to work. Doesn't have to be a QT Movie, could be an AppleScript app to set up QuickTime just as you like.

Not tried this out, tho.

Hope it helps.</STRONG>

Well, crap! Thanks for the help though...I'd never noticed that option in Toast.

The problem is that these CDs are hybrids (my wife watches the files on her PC). Is there any way to make a cross-platform autoplay upon insert CD?

Thanks for the help!

Cheers
Scott

[jonny05]

If you want to make the PC version autostart, you need to put a text file in the root of the PC part of the CD called 'autorun.inf'. It needs to contain the following:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>[autorun]

open=setup.exe
icon=setup.ico</font>[/code]

setup.exe should be the name of the app/file on the CD to run (it's a relative path). Dunno if it works OK for QT files, would depend if the file associations are set up OK.

setup.ico is the name of the icon file to display as the volume's icon in Windows Explorer. You can create .ico files from Iconographer.
Specifying the icon is optional.

Good luck...

[str1]

Originally posted by jonny05:
<STRONG>If you want to make the PC version autostart, you need to put a text file in the root of the PC part of the CD called 'autorun.inf'. It needs to contain the following:

&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial"&gt;code:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;HR&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;font size=1 face=courier&gt;[autorun]

open=setup.exe
icon=setup.ico&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;HR&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;

setup.exe should be the name of the app/file on the CD to run (it's a relative path). Dunno if it works OK for QT files, would depend if the file associations are set up OK.

setup.ico is the name of the icon file to display as the volume's icon in Windows Explorer. You can create .ico files from Iconographer.
Specifying the icon is optional.

Good luck...</STRONG>

Cool! Thanks a bunch! I'll give it a shot tonight.... So is there any way to do this so that the file will autorun on both Windows and Mac?

Cheers
Scott