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rohandhruva

28th August 2008, 10:22

Hi,

I am making a DVD for a friend - it has 4 movies on it. The DVD is a birthday gift for that friend. That friend will be using the DVD on a windows pc only. I want to create a simple autostart program, which will show a dialog box with a message "Happy Birthday!" and then give a selection list to play the movie.

To ensure that the movies play, I will be including VLCPortable on the DVD. So basically, the autorun just needs to display a "Happy birthday" message, and then give 4 buttons, which call "VLCPortable\VLC.exe move.avi"

Can someone please suggest me a program which can do this?

Guest

29th August 2008, 00:43

I am making a DVD for a friend - it has 4 movies on it. Per forum rule 6, we cannot help you to distribute copyrighted material.

rohandhruva

29th August 2008, 02:53

neuron2, Sorry I should have mentioned - they are not "commercial" movies. They are "movies" as in home made videos I shot using myself. I wouldn't give downloaded XVID rips as birthday gift, would I? :)

juGGaKNot

29th August 2008, 12:50

i'm also looking for a free "menu maker" for my home made counter strike movies mpeg4 ( xvid and x264 )

smok3

29th August 2008, 13:38

there is something called html application which could probably be abused for this purpose if you know some vbscript or javascript and some html, example;

run.hta

<html>
<head>
<script language="VBScript">

Sub RunProgram
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "t:\path\VirtualDub.exe"
End Sub

</script>
</head>

<body>
<button onclick="RunProgram">Run Program</button>
</body>
</html>

edit:
unrelated: and yes, suggesting videoDVD is perfectly valid and sane idea. Mucho better than some crappy custom launchers.