DVDRebuilder Silent install

[kfcofir]

Hello.

is there a way to silent install DVD Rebuilder Pro.

[jdobbs]

I'm not sure what you mean by silent install... could you explain?

[kfcofir]

Hello

That i am looking for is a Silent Switch to install the software silent so you dont have to push next and so on. so i can put it on my Unattended XP

[hallway]

It asks too many questions to be done unattended. I did suggest in another thread just minutes ago that if the installer detects an existing installation, that it could skip a lot though....

[Darksoul71]

You could either try to build your own install package (based on an existing installation) or go for an AutoIt script to emulate the manual steps.

I think a scaled down install package (could be a simple zip-file) is the simplest approach.

It asks too many questions to be done unattended.
I would disagree with this one. Esp. with a personalized unattended XP CD you pretty much know which software is going to be installed in which configuration. This makes an install script in AutoIt very easy. It just takes "some" time to write down those manual steps and put together a script which emulates them.

[Rockas]

Well... a silent installer is an easy thing to do but then... there would be someone complaining about it not being "transparent" enough 'cause they want to know what is being installed :)

I made the installer and made it that way so everyone can access to all the stuff it installs... come on guys... it isn't very hard to do a few clicks once and a while :D

[mitsuman]

Hello..

i have try to use autoit but i cant get it to work problerly because when the dvd rebuilder is on a cdrom when you came to where you have tell the patch on witch drev it automatisk takes the cdrom and i dont know how to change that inside the auto it script because when you are running the auto scriptwriter i dosent take any keystroke with.,

[Darksoul71]

@Rockas:
Your installer works great and completely fulfills the needs of 99.9% of all users out there. I think the main reason for having DVD-RB integrated into a windows slipstream CD with some sort of silent installation is less that fact that it´s "hard to do a few clicks once and a while" but that you (the user of the slipstream CD) might have something like 20-30 apps that require "a few clicks once and a while".

This sums up to a lot of clicks "here and there". Personally I´m changing my system way too often to think about a slipstream CD matching my requirements.

As stated above I guess doing a "silent" installation of DVD-RB doesn´t really require more than a simple script, a zip of the original installation of DVD-RB and the automized installation of AVISynth. Though IMO there´s nothing more to say about a "silent installation".

@mitsuman: Sorry, I don´t want to sound unpolitely but it´s very hard to follow your english. Could you clarify your question ?

Thanks,
D$

[hallway]

Well... a silent installer is an easy thing to do but then... there would be someone complaining about it not being "transparent" enough... Simple: Make a "typical" installation and a "custom". The typical would make many, many assumptions and also skip the custom encoder steps (use HC by default). The custom would be the current process.

As I mentioned in another thread, the installer asks a lot of questions. That's GREAT for many, but extra time for others. I guess it wouldn't be a big deal except DVD-RB gets updated so often. Mind you, that's also a GREAT thing, it just comes with a minor downside of "reinstalling" so often.

Please don't think I'm complaining. This is constructive criticism ! :)