DVD@ccess folder copy

Hiya - does anyone know if there's a way to PREVENT DVDSP copying the DVDccess folder during a build? I'd rather place the DVD@ccess Windows installer in a folder with other items, which I can in the DVD-ROM content but a redundant DVDccess folder is created no matter what. I can use other tools (like mkisofs) to get rid of it from a disk image, but this is a DVD-9 project and I need to make layered DDP2.1 files for replication, which means the build and format steps need to happen within DVDSP.
I've also trawled through the various project xmls like ObjectDatB (plutil is my friend) but there seems to be no switchable option to prevent inclusion of this folder once DVD@ccess links are in place.
Ideas? Thanks in advance.

DVD@ccess looked promising but it's a non-starter. The technology was unreliable when it was new and I do not believe it has seen neither improvement nor revision. I have used it successfully only once back in DVDSPv2 and that was for a Mac-only release.
Can you accomplish your goals with any other technology? Does Adobe Encore offer you any better solution for a Windows client (never used it myself)?
sorry not to have ay better advice for you other than to forget DVD@ccess. Please come back and let us know if you find a workable solution; it will help others in similar situations.
bogiesan

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I am very new to DSP, and I know I am missing a piece of the jigsaw, but I do not know what it is. I used a tutorial from creative cow to try and make the @CCEESS function work, but no dice… for now at least. When I did a build/format (to the HDD) everything went fine. I mounted the image, and I could see the DVD @CCESS folder and the DVD–ROM content on the DVD image. When I went to play the image, the button did not work. The content I am trying to use with @CCESS is a PDF file.
The tutorial I followed was this: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/alexzander_alex/dvdaccess.php
By the way, I am using is 4.2.2
Help or just counsel is appreciated.

As Eric said - DVD@ccess is really not that useful. It was a way to get documents like PDFs to automatically launch in the application (like Acrobat) when watching a DVD on a computer. Since they can't launch on a set top player the technology was already limited. Then the whole issue of getting it to work on a PC arose - it simply wasn't reliable. I managed to produce one disc that was replicated with @ccess links, but I knew the parameters for it's use in advance and managed to get it to work. It doesn't work on modern machines.
For a while there was a Sonic app which was much better at getting this sort of thing to work, but you had to work on a OC to set it up. Sonic pulled the app shortly after I bought it (sigh) and never replaced it. The fact is, automating document launches and web links is actually pretty tricky on a DVD, the results were variable and it never really enhanced your discs like you wanted to think it would!
If all you want to do is include a PDF file on the disc, and alert viewers to it being there, you only need to use the ROM content functions not @ccess, and you can use a menu screen to give instructions to people to let them know how to find it.

DVD-ROM folder shows up in Mac only

I'm using DVDSP 4.12, and this topic has nothing to do with DVD@ccess.
These two folders, VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS, are standard feature in every DVD video disc.
DVDSP will also create a 3rd folder, "JACKET_P", if you include a Jacket Picture.
Finally, DVDSP will create another folder in a name of your choice when you use the "DVD-ROM" function. I usually name mine "DVD_ROM", and put the album artworks jpgs & pdfs and perhaps some .mp4 files in it.
When I mount the DVD in a Mac, all the above folders (and their contents) show up in Finder.
However, opening the same DVD in Windows XP's Explorer, only the first two folders show up. The other two are totally invisible.
Does anyone knows why this is so? Isn't the "DVD-ROM' content function of DVDSP cross platform? How do I make the DVD_ROM folder accessible for its content in a Windows environment?
Any help is appreciated.
(If it matters, I always enable the "Joliet Extension Support". I also create a image .dmg file when Formatting in DVDSP, and subsequently burn the .dmg in Toast 8.)
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I always enable the "Joliet Extension Support"
this is the problem - you are creating a 'ROM' disc
you should be using the data tab but select the UDF format to create a DVD

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Here I am with a mystery.....
A friend of mine (win user) gave me a dvd-r containing photos splitted in 3 different folders.
In my win7 laptop I see everything without problem but... surprise, on my MBP (Lion) one of the folder simply disappear!
I tried also with my powermac (SL) and the result is the same even if I use a Lacie external device.
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I'm using DVD studio Pro 3.0.2 and I can't get DVD@ccess to work at all. I follow what the book tells me to do exactly and it just won't work. It doesn't open my browser and link to the website, it just sits there on the menu that I enable the @ccess on. What am I missing? These are the steps I've taken:
1. Create a new menu.
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3. Type in the url complete with the http://
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You don't mention enabling DVD@cess links for simulator in the prefs - this is off by default in the simulator prefs in DVDSP, as well as off by default in Apple DVD Player.
Also, since typing a buch of slashes and colons always feels like greek to me, and I usually get it wrong, I almost always copy and paste a url from my web browser after checking it there, rather than typing it in. An invalid url will cause DVD@ccess to appear to do nothing, even if it is enabled.
You might consider providing a local html page on the ROM sector of the disc instead of the web url, in case users are not connected to the internet.
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Using DVD@ccess for .PDF (not clear to me in Manual)

So I've got a link typed into a certain page of the DVD to link to a .pdf file. The link is typed as:
file:///DVDname/foldername/file.pdf
This is how it tells me to link it in the Manual, however whenever I burn a test disc, put it in the computer, check the "enable DVD@ccess" box in the DVD Player prefs, and test it, it does not open the file. How is this not working? Do I have to place the folder in a specific location when the DVD begins to build and format, or do I have to include the full line of folder names (folders within folders) when I type in the address above? Am I selecting the wrong folder when I choose the "content" folder before building the DVD?

Good links from Drew...
The process is complicated. I'll try to make it simple.
First off, your pdf file needs to be in a folder somewhere on your machine - let's call it EXTRAS. That folder itself now needs to be in a parent folder as well, let's call that one ROM_CONTENT. For simplicity just set this up on your desktop for now.
From within DVDSP you need to set the location of the pdf file in the property inspector, but you do this in two places. First off, click on the disc icon in the outline view and then look in the property inspector for the ROM section. Use the 'Browse' facility to specify the outer folder you made earlier, and make sure the path in the property inspector points to the location of 'ROM_CONTENT'.
Now, in the menu that is going to hold the DVD@ccess link you also specify the path to the file, but this time you set up the path as it would appear after the disc is built. If your pdf file is called 'products' and your DVD itself is called 'My_Disc' then the URL that you put in the menu needs to be:
file:///My_Disc/EXTRAS/products.pdf
Note that you *do not* use the name of the parent folder... this is very important!
When DVDSP builds the disc it will place the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders at the root level (the first thing you see if you open the disc in your finder). When you use DVD@ccess it will also put a folder to hold the @ccess.exe file with instructions to PC users, and it will also put whatever it finds inside the ROM_CONTENT folder at the root level of the disc. In the example here it finds a folder called EXTRAS and so the root of your disc looks nice and tidy - four folders. If you didn't use the inner folder then your pdf would appear as a file on the root... which to me is plain messy.
Now, since the folder called EXTRAS is now at the root level and holding the file to launch, that's what you MUST specify when writing the menu URL.
Finally, in order to see this working on your Mac (simulator) you need to turn on the DVD@ccess prefs in both DVDSP and DVD Player. Once done, the file should launch your default pdf viewer (probably 'Preview'). If it doesn't then there is either something wrong with the paths you have used inside DVDSP, or there is something wrong with your Mac! I'd suspect the paths before anything else...

DVD@ccess on PC

Hi guys
I'm authoring a DVD for PC and the client needs links to pdf's and websites.
Now as far as i'm aware i need to include software on the cd for it to work on a PC.
Is there no easier option?
My client assumes that the end user will not have the technical know-how or time to load this app.
would greatly appreciate any insight
jammy
ps: if no one helps me i'll probably end up hurting my client so pls help

You have only a few options, but two require the end user to either already have the right software installed, or to install the software themselves.
The first is to use DVD@ccess and require the PC user to install that on their machine. This is a Mac based system and so works easily on Macs.
The second is to use a PC and write the interactive stuff using eDVD from Sonic and make use of the Interactual player. It is much more versatile, but suffers from the same problem of needing to have software installed. A lot of PCs do already have it because they have used it before and previously installed it - it is a widely used player. Macs will need to install it.
The only other thing to do is to include the content on the disc but not make it open automatically. Just inform the viewer (by using text in a menu) that there is additional content and tell them how to get to it. If you include the PDFs in a folder they will be able to open them with whatever PDF reader they use. You could do the same with a web site - place a single page in a folder which, when it is opened in a browser, has text to tell the viewer that they now need to be online and a link to click which takes them to the right web site.
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I need to link a folder that contains multiple .pdf files to a menu button in DVDSP 4.
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I've used DVD@ccess in the past to link a singular file with great success.
But now I need to link an entire folder of files, and have the folder open in a new window.
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Hey James,
I'm pretty sure you can't use DVD@ccess to link to a folder. But you can (as you know and have done before) link to a file.
So, you could link to the first file in the folder and leave it to the user to find the rest.
Or, you might consider creating a simple html file that lists the pdf files in an index.
I'm sure there are other workarounds, too, but they will all involve linking to a file that allows you to access the folder of pdf files.
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The answer is not what you want to hear but avoid DVD-Video and links (pdf, web etc). Just have a Menu informing users to browse the disc, maybe have a flash/director app on there that they can run if you dont just want a folder full of files for them to browse.
Links are a nightmare and should be avoided. No DVD@access Vista installer,
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Hi There,
I've recently finished a project where I used eDVD to enable links to PDFs and the Web for PCs and I used DVD@ccess to make a Mac copy. The Mac copy seems to work flawlessly on Macs, but I'm getting mixed results with the eDVD PC version.
Is there an alternative to eDVD? One which is more stable/reliable?
I downloaded the trial version of eDVD on a friend's PC to get this job done. I found it fairly straight forward and easy to use, but before I go ahead and buy the program proper I thought I'd just check if there is a better program out there.
Any suggestions?
Cheers.

The thing to do here is to test the software and see if it works for you
I have used both E-DVD and Intellidisc a quick comparison on how I found them:
E-DVD is an basic level DVD authoring application which has the ability to create links-it is complicated to use and is not that effective in doing so. Its major draw back for users is that the user must install software to allow the links to work.
Intellidisc is a dedicated application for creating DVD discs which allows a seamless link with DVD-ROM content or the Internet.
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Adding H.264 Files into DVD-ROM Folder

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But i guess that's not exactly a topic for this forum. < </div>
It's not the topic is inappropriate, it's just not a direct function of DVDSP and, as you might guess, folks like me have neither experience nor patience with PC applications. That it can be done at all without using something like HTML amazes me. Thanks for the heads up on this technique, Chris, hopefully the OP will research it on his own.
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*** Setting up DVD@ccess

I would like on the main menu of my DVD for users on computers to be able to click on a button that I have layed over a part of the text on the screen that will bring them to my website. Is this possible? I've already created the new button and placed it over the text and then gone to the DVD@ccess part of the menu in the inspector, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I don't seem to be able to target my drop zone over the text to launch my website when someone clicks on it.........how does this happen?

1. DVD@cess works VERY spotty at best. VERY. I am not the only one who thinks so:)
2. By default, DVD@cess is turned off in the Mac dvd player. Most people will have no knowledge of it unless you inform them that it exists and needs to be switched on.
3. PC's do not have it so you will have to include the software in a ROM folder on the dvd if you want them to be able to click to your website--they will have to install it on their computer.
Still interested in using it?
You can't really put dvd@ccess on a button, it has to go on a menu. When the user goes to that menu, the dvd@ccess is triggererd, hOPEFULLY doing what you want it to do. The work around is to have a button that say "Go to website". When the person clicks the button, it jumps to an identical menu which has the dvd@ccess attached and then times out at 1 second and sends you back to the real menu...
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In principle, the idea of DVD@ccess or creating enhanced content DVDs is rather cool. In practice, the experience was never anything but variable. Whilst DVD@ccess seemed to work for Macs, and some PCs the result was never reliable on a PC. Alternative solutions on PCs, including Sonic's eDVD, have also since been abandoned. There is no single standards based system for creating interactive links and that is what is needed for all discs to work.
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I'm just getting into this issue, and I've researched some past threads on DVD@ccess for linking to urls and also pdfs. It seems the conventional wisdom is that, for maximum compatibility and interactivity, Sonic's eDVD is preferred to DVD@ccess. Is this a fair assessment?
Also, does replication alter the equation in any way? What I mean is, will the replication process smooth out any operational issues that might plague simple burning a disc?
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Yeah I'd say that is fair. eDVD is prefered. But not having links can often be best! as both have their issues...
Nope replication doesn't alter the equation regarding the 'Enhanced'features,
-Jake

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