Make an SVCD autorun on PC without DVD program?

[e-rocc]

Is it possible to get an SVCD to autorun (begin playing after inserting the disc and without doing anything) on a PC that doesn't have a DVD player installed? Thanks.

[NeWcS]

Make a bin/cue with vcdimager, then use isoBuster to extract the folder tree. Then write a autorun.ini that points to the biggest .dat file on the disk(Dont reamber the folder name where the dat file is)

-Hope this helps

[e-rocc]

would it be possible to put some sort of DVD prog on the cd and run open the svcd in that? because i want this to be able to run right away even on pc's without a dvd program.

[da franksta]

why wouldn't you want a dvd player to play your svcd's :confused:

[htc10825]

because all the DVD-Player atm use the DirectShow filters witch
needs to be registered. So a on-the-fly SVCD/DVD-Player on a neutral PC will not exist at the current technical level.

Of cause you can self write a programm to do all things required and
then revelution the DVD-Player scene.

Before you really start such a project you´d better consider:
SVCD is designed for standalone home player, witch has no problem with the "autorun". A DivX-CD with MicroDVD-Player was aspected normally in PC, witch has also no problem with "autorun".

[e-rocc]

htc10825:

Could you possibly elaborate on your last sentence? So is there a way to do what I described, just in a different format (ie. DivX)? I'm open for different formats if they have similar quality to SVCD.

[andyg]

I've seen a VCD with Roxio VCD software-player EXE file on it. You insert
the VCD in CD-ROM, Roxio kicks in and displays the VCD menu, ready
to go. I think this is what You want, right?
You'll need to copy some DVD software-player on Your CD it self i think, but never tried it myself yet.

[DDogg]

Doom9 actually has a complete guide on doing this (autorun divx)

[htc10825]

andyg:

what you say is VCD, it is MPEG1, and windows 9x/NT/2k/XP has nativ support for it. so you can play all mpeg1 files without extra filter
to be registered. It is different for SVCD, it is mpeg2. So normal you have to install a DVD-Player such as WinDVD/PowerDVD than you have got some registered DS-Filters for MPEG2 decoding. After that you can play the SVCD.

e-rocc & DDogg:

with the tool in DOOM9´s guide you can produce only bad quality autoruns. I´ve used Multimedia Builder 4.8 and MicroDVD Player to get top quality DivX-CDs with (allmost)all functions of a ori. DVD (menus, languages, chapters, subtitles, and codec install)