Burning .ppt's to CD and Windows XP Media Player autoplays the movies first

[Matt]

Hi

How best to solve this - we burn a "compilation" of presentations,
some director, some powerpoint. When handed out, client PC jumps on
the mpegs automatically (XP hand-holding) and client thinks that's
what we produce, lol!

Anyone else encounter this and what did you do? Use Secure Pack?
IExpress fix? Winzip .exe? I've bben trawling through the group but
thought I'd raise it here as I'm trying these solutions, will post
results as I have them.

Thanks
Kevin

 

[Sonia]

If you create a menu presentation that links to all of the choices you want to
provide on the CD, and then create an autorun.inf file that launches the menu
pressie, it will override Windows penchant for launching the videos. Otherwise,
as long as those videos are on the CD Windows will try to launch them.

Windows scans the root directory of the CD to decide what to do with it. If
it's a data CD it will still look for multimedia files, even in folders.
However, if it finds an autorun.inf file, that will take precedence.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Kevin / Matt,

When handed out, client PC jumps on the mpegs automatically

Please can you explain this a little more.... is it skipping the video clips, do they start to play, then advance to the
next slide or what?

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[lost]

i think it is autoplaying the cd, but not using an autorun.inf...maybe there
is no autorun.inf as maybe they dont have ppt2003 or sonias addon.

it (windows) kicks in and attempts to predict what to do with the cd
because there are some videos on the cd and other files...this is a common
windows prompt.. there is a way to disable it
on my computer it brings on a selection as to what to do with the cd ..eg
slideshow, blah blah..

I think they need an autorun.inf file

lost?

 

[Matt]

Thanks to all who responded, I think Sonia nailed it. Windows (at
least since XP) scans the cd and says "oooh let me play this .mpg
automatically" which is a royal pain. Obviously I have no control over
client PC prefs and have no wish to ask them to change their settings.

I tried the IEXpress method to create a packed .exe but after all that
it comes up with error "Powerpoint Viewer cannot play the file because
it is too large"....gah...forget it!

I'm abandoning that route and simply making an autorun cd for this
..ppt only, and a separate cd for all the other presentations.

Cheers
Kevin