Minimalistic autolauncher... is it so hard?

[rmatei]

Is there any divx CD autolauncher out there that would just take a filename as a parameter, maybe in an ini, or even search for a video file, and launch it with whatever the default program is for that file? For instance, it would work on PCs with only WMP, and on PCs where Zoomplayer is the default. It would also work for ogm as well as avi.

I would really appreciate one. :)

[tiki4]

Please take a look at movie.exe 1.23 in the download section of doom9. Has always fit my needs. I just looks for an *.AVI (or whatever you specify) and opens it in the default video player. You also can automatically check for the installed Media Player or install the necessary codecs, but you may also just disable this functionality by commenting out the lines in movie.ini.

Have fun,

tiki4

[ppera2]

File autorun.inf on CD:

[autorun]
open=mplayer2.exe /fullscreen /play /close \Movie.avi
It works in Win 98-Me

For XP or 2K you need small autorun.exe (3KB):

[autorun]
open=autorun.exe mplayer2.exe /fullscreen /play /close \Movie.avi

[rmatei]

Neither of those work with the default player, be it Zoom or WMP or Mdvd. I'm coding something simple though so I'll let you know.

[rmatei]

Okay... for what it's worth, here it is:
Trampoline v0.000000001 (http://www.dslextreme.com/users/matei/trampoline.exe)

Burn it in the root of the CD and point autorun.inf to it. It'll look for an ogg/avi file and play it with the default player. Please report any bugs. If you want the code, I can post it, all 32 lines of it.

[tiki4]

It seems you're right. I forgot about that. Thanks for your app. May I have a look on those 32 lines? Maybe I can start understanding a little bit of Windows programming.

Regards,

tiki4

[ookzDVD]

Usually I use Movie Launcher by Azza,
the size is about 500Kb, you can add front/back cover, plus movie info.
After add support for audio/video codec, plus
player (MPC), tobias's ogg splitter. all are about 2Mb.