Director Movies as ROM content in DVD-Video?

Only just bought Director MX Studio 2004, and recieved the
package today.
My Graphics partner is very excited!
But anyway - what I am wondering is if it is possible to
create Director Movies that can be added to DVD-Video discs in the
ROM folder so that they will play on computer based DVD-ROM drives.
If this is something that can be done - complete with the
.exe file (as well as a Mac equivalent?) then this is indeed going
to be fun.
Can anyone tell me if this is possible please? And if it is,
how I would go about it? (Apart from RTFM of course!)

Welcome to the world that is director, hold tight, its about
to get hairy!
I maybe misinterpreting your post here but here gos anyway,-
Think of Director as an application creating piece of kit. It
essentially allows you to generate multimedia and deliver it in
several ways. As far as DVD is concerned, it is a common
misconception that director can create DVD material. So when you
say 'Director Movies as ROM content in DVD-Video?' This is a
definate NO. In fact its just the opposite, Director can only
showcase DVD video.
Ive created several DVD-roms in the past that when played
back on a pc or mac, will present the director application (text,
pictures, swf animations, interactivity etc...) as well as DVD
material. This is created by adding a DVD asset and then pointing
to the DVD folder contaning all the VOB files etc. To authour this,
you then include the DVD video material along with your DVD-rom.
Now you can do several things with the DVD video such as
control the playback, speed, audiochannel, chapter etc... as well
as fire off events as and when you require them..
I suggest you prob futher into this subject, you will find
all the information you need on the abode site and this forum,
heres a starting point-
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/director/articles/dvd.html.
You may also want to look up the DVD events manager.
Good luck with this, used correctly its a very powerful
tool.

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