I'm trying to use advanced features of vlc because i want to create a cd (or a dvd) with thi structure:
- (folder) Video, where there are movies
- (folder) Vlc, where I extract the zip file of vlc ver. 0.8.4.
I have a program that creates autorun to play, and I want that vlc opens video on insert of cd. How can I do this? With command line of vlc? Which is the exact parameter that I must use?
Thanks a lot
Standalone playable cd with vlc
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Within Windows this is easier than requiring a program to make an autorun file, as most that I have seen take more space and more time than to make it yourself.
The file you want to make is called AUTORUN.INF
Inside it looks like this:
[AutoRun]
open=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe \myvideo.avi
icon=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe,0
If you have lots of files on the disk you could make a playlist with VLC and then edit the playlist with an editor to change the path for the CD. The path should always be relative so no mater if your drive is D: or E: etc. the path would simply be \filename.ext assuming you don't make directories on the CD. Then when you burn the CD include the playlist along with the autorun file.
So it would look like this:
[AutoRun]
open=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe \playlist.m3u
icon=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe,0
The file you want to make is called AUTORUN.INF
Inside it looks like this:
[AutoRun]
open=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe \myvideo.avi
icon=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe,0
If you have lots of files on the disk you could make a playlist with VLC and then edit the playlist with an editor to change the path for the CD. The path should always be relative so no mater if your drive is D: or E: etc. the path would simply be \filename.ext assuming you don't make directories on the CD. Then when you burn the CD include the playlist along with the autorun file.
So it would look like this:
[AutoRun]
open=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe \playlist.m3u
icon=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe,0
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Shinji
Great!If you have lots of files on the disk you could make a playlist with VLC and then edit the playlist with an editor to change the path for the CD. The path should always be relative so no mater if your drive is D: or E: etc. the path would simply be \filename.ext assuming you don't make directories on the CD. Then when you burn the CD include the playlist along with the autorun file.
So it would look like this:
[AutoRun]
open=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe \playlist.m3u
icon=c:\progra~1\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe,0
It's also possible to make in the cd a folder with all the vlc player and to play the video from the cd without install vlc in the hard disk.
Thanks a lot
Re: Standalone playable cd with vlc
Having searched a number of forums for information on how to do this, none quite answered the question I had, which was how to set up a CD or DVD with a recording and also the software to play the recording on it, so that nothing else would be needed to be able to give the recording to somebody else - the recording should just play, regardless of what software they had installed on their PC. All of this was done on Windows XP Pro.
By gathering together information gleaned from various posts, plus a bit of experimentation, here's what I did. I did my experimenting on a large memory card before committing to a DVD, but you could use a RW CD or DVD too
. I'd suggest that anyone else should do the same too, so that a simple typo somewhere doesn't waste a CD or DVD.
I used VLCPortable (available from portableapps.com), because I think somebody else has already removed the unnecessary bits ... and if they haven't, well I wasn't going to start second-guessing which bits I did or didn't need. Besides, it's all packaged neatly into a directory already.
1. Copy the VLCPortable directory to the DVD
2. Copy the recordings to the root directory of the DVD
3. Create an Autorun.inf file that contains the following:
[Autorun]
Open=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe Playlist.m3u
Action=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.com
Icon=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe
Label=TV-Recordings (NB: You can use your own label. It will identify the drive in My Computer.)
4. Run VLCPortable and create a Playlist (View | Playlist) which includes the file(s) on the DVD.
5. Click properties and edit the Info for each recording to remove the '<driveletter>\:' bit (and any folders if you've created it from the original file on your hard drive), just leaving the filename itself.
6. Save the playlist as Playlist.m3u (You can call it something else if you like, but remember to edit the command line in Autorun.inf to match.)
7. As a belt-and-braces, put the following Readme.txt file on the DVD:
Insert Disk
Select VLCPortable (should be first in list).
The first (or only) file in the playlist will start playing.
To play other recordings on the disk, go to View, Playlist, and select the recording you want.
8. If possible, try your results on a different PC than the one you created it on, preferably with different drive letters set up and without VLC installed.
Don't ask me what the Action= line in the Autorun.inf file is, or what it's for. I just copied an existing Autorun.inf file from elsewhere and tweaked it until it worked.
Hope this helps somebody, as a post like this would have saved me a lot of time
Julie
By gathering together information gleaned from various posts, plus a bit of experimentation, here's what I did. I did my experimenting on a large memory card before committing to a DVD, but you could use a RW CD or DVD too
. I'd suggest that anyone else should do the same too, so that a simple typo somewhere doesn't waste a CD or DVD. I used VLCPortable (available from portableapps.com), because I think somebody else has already removed the unnecessary bits ... and if they haven't, well I wasn't going to start second-guessing which bits I did or didn't need. Besides, it's all packaged neatly into a directory already.
1. Copy the VLCPortable directory to the DVD
2. Copy the recordings to the root directory of the DVD
3. Create an Autorun.inf file that contains the following:
[Autorun]
Open=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe Playlist.m3u
Action=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.com
Icon=VLCPortable\VLCPortable.exe
Label=TV-Recordings (NB: You can use your own label. It will identify the drive in My Computer.)
4. Run VLCPortable and create a Playlist (View | Playlist) which includes the file(s) on the DVD.
5. Click properties and edit the Info for each recording to remove the '<driveletter>\:' bit (and any folders if you've created it from the original file on your hard drive), just leaving the filename itself.
6. Save the playlist as Playlist.m3u (You can call it something else if you like, but remember to edit the command line in Autorun.inf to match.)
7. As a belt-and-braces, put the following Readme.txt file on the DVD:
Insert Disk
Select VLCPortable (should be first in list).
The first (or only) file in the playlist will start playing.
To play other recordings on the disk, go to View, Playlist, and select the recording you want.
8. If possible, try your results on a different PC than the one you created it on, preferably with different drive letters set up and without VLC installed.
Don't ask me what the Action= line in the Autorun.inf file is, or what it's for. I just copied an existing Autorun.inf file from elsewhere and tweaked it until it worked.
Hope this helps somebody, as a post like this would have saved me a lot of time
Julie
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