Director project over 2 CD's

[BalsaDust webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,
I am building a director project which involves playing back over one hour of Mpeg 1 video. This duration is made up of separate video clips.

I need to store the clips across 2 CD's, with a common navigation menu.

What is the neatest way of setting this up ?

Any one done this before?

thanks
Andy

[Word of Mouth Productions]

I have done this. Since I did there is probably some new fangled xtra that
would make it easy. The trouble is that on a PC when an executable is
loaded into memory from a CD, that CD can't be removed without some sort of
crash. I experienced this on Win 98 and I would get that ugly blue screen
with white text on it. I'm not sure what would happen in XP.

So what I was forced to do was to have an installation routine on the CD
that would copy, minimally, the projector, extras, splash image, and any
other files that must be in the same directory as the .exe to the users hard
drive. Then when the CD needed to be changed, ALL media that was in memory
that was read from the CD (interface graphics, video, ANY media) had to be
unloaded and in the projetor, the playback head was sent to a screen that
just had a text box that told the user what CD to install. Of course, that
text box cast member was in the projector, not in the .dir or .cst's that
were on the CD.

Of course, you have to read the name of the CD to make sure the user inserts
the correct one (still important with a 2 CD project since the user could
reinsert #1 when it asks for #2) and that means naming them correctly when
you burn them. And you need to monitor when the CD is mounted in an
exitFrame handler that doesn't run more often than once every few seconds.

That's what is needed in a nutshell from my recollection. It's pretty cool
when it all comes together but you'll run into a few headaches on the way
(like relationships)



--
Craig Wollman
Word of Mouth Productions
phone 212 724 8302
fax 212 724 8151
[url]www.wordofmouthpros.com[/url]


"BalsaDust" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am building a director project which involves playing back over one hour

of Mpeg 1 video. This duration is made up of separate video clips.

>
> I need to store the clips across 2 CD's, with a common navigation menu.
>
> What is the neatest way of setting this up ?
>
> Any one done this before?
>
> thanks
> Andy
>
>

[Rob Dillon]

Any chance you could distribute on a DVD? Everything would fit on one
disc.

--
Rob
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Team Macromedia
[url]http://www.ddg-designs.com[/url]
412-243-9119

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