CD slide show help

[Vince Paske]

I need to create a cd-rom that has an animation and still's that I can hand off to a client. Here's the tricky part, I want it to play automatically when they put it into their cd-rom and I want to have it show a still image first, then play the animation, and then display another still.

I have no idea what software to use to create a cd-rom that automatically plays when placed in the cd drive, or software to include on the cd-rom itself so it plays correctly on virtually all pc's. Any help on how to go about doing this will be greatly appreciated.

[Ray]

http://www.typhoonsoftware.com/

 

This will autorun your cd, w/ a splash screen and music, if you like. I presume you already have something to create the slideshow. If not, let me know.

[Josh1587140445]

You can create a real nice slide show with either Macromedia Director or Flash. Even Powerpoint can create a pretty decent one to burn to a cd. Then to get the CD to run on it's own, you just need to add an autorun.inf file to the CD.

 

But if you end up creating your CD using html, you will also need little .exe file called RunHTML.exe. I am willing to share it if someone wants it. It is a freeware program, so there is not liscencing issues, same with the autorun file, but you can pretty much copy it off any CD, you will just have to edit it.

 

 

 

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Example autorun.inf

 

Just edit the code below in a simple text editor and point it to the correct file.

 

[autorun]

open=runhtml.exe

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[Vince Paske]

Thanks for your help guys. I used Irfran view to generate an executable file with the slideshow I wanted. Then I just copied a generic autorun.inf file from a cd-rom and changed "open=_.exe" to the executable I created. The nice part about this is it didn't cost anything and you don't have to worry about software being installed on the clients computer.

Josh - does Power Point need to be installed on the clients machine?

Ray, thanks for the link - that's a cool app and maybe we'll use it if we need the advanced features.

[Josh1587140445]

No, I do not believe Powerpoint needs to be installed. Just save it as a powerpoint show.