How do I ensure that a CD archive will launch automatically?
From Avacast Support
How do I ensure that a CD archive will launch automatically?
(The following article applies to PC/Windows only.)
If you are interested in burning a CD archive to a CD-ROM so that it will launch automatically when inserted into a CD-ROM drive, follow this procedure.
First, create your CD archive for the desired event from the Administrator Archive panel. Upon successful creation, an archive event folder called "EVENTID_cd" is created on the Avacaster server (where EVENTID is the name of the live event you used to create the archive).
Copy this folder to the machine where you have the CD burning software available, using whatever method is available to you or works best (FTP, file sharing, drive mapping, etc.) Don't forget to copy the archive media file to this folder also, if it was not transferred automatically to the Avacaster server during the archive creation process.
Within your CD burning program, make sure you set it up so that the contents of the folder are at the root level of the CD-ROM, not the "EVENTID_cd" event folder. This where the file "autorun.inf" is looking for the "index.html" file to launch the archive. In other words, don't include the event folder on the CD-ROM, just include the files contained within it.
Alternatively, if you want to keep the event folder intact on the CD, you can move the autorun.inf file outside the event folder (so that this file and the EVENTID_cd event folder are at the root level, next to each other). Then edit the autorun.inf file to include the folder name as follows:
Change this line: OPEN=shellexe.exe index.html to this: OPEN=shellexe.exe EVENTID_cd\index.html
Then go ahead and burn the CD. Sometimes, a user may have turned off the AutoPlay feature on their computer. In this case, select the CD drive with the CD-ROM inserted, right-click on the CD drive and then select "AutoPlay."
Note that a CD archive can always be played by double-clicking the "index.html" file (as mentioned above, this is the same file the Autorun feature is using).
