Automatically playing multiple movies one after another

I want to put in my DVD and see a menu of 6 separate movie files (ie, I do NOT want to auto play the first movie).
But when I do click play on the first movie, I want it to automatically go to the 2nd movie and play that, then the 3rd, etc.
Is this possible?

Hi cornfellow
Welcome to apple discussions. If you happen to be working with chapter markers in either FCP or iMovie (version 6 for example) then iDvd has the ability to generate a play all button. But short of this, there is no way I'm aware of within iDVD alone to link different videos together like there is in DVDSP or Roxio Toast. I believe this has been covered a number of times on apple discussions / forums. For example:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1381250
iDvd does not have a play all check box like Toast does unfortunately (ie, see bottom left corner of image below). As already mentioned above, Toast is likely your best and most affordable option here. But if you have the time and extra money, then I highly recommend learning to use DVDSP also.
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