DVD@ccess - installation rights?

Does anyone know if you need to be an administrator to install DVD@ccess on a PC?
If the answer is no, can you direct me to the .pdf of or link that says so. I'm having a hard time finding it.
Thanks!

I'm thinking this will be enteirely dependent on the configuration of the windows system. If windows asks for a password when software is installed, then the user will have to follow whatever procedure they normally follow when intsalling.

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DVD@ccess readme rights

I notice the readme file that is automatically put on DVDs instructing on how to install DVD@ccess is copyrighted by Apple. I'd like to put these instructions on DVD packaging, as well. Has anyone tried to contact Apple for permission to reprint that? Not sure why they'd want to copyright that. It doesn't appear easy to contact a real, relevant person at Apple via their support site.

I'm thinking this will be enteirely dependent on the configuration of the windows system. If windows asks for a password when software is installed, then the user will have to follow whatever procedure they normally follow when intsalling.

Dvd@ccess on windows Vista?

I am running DVD studio Pro Version 4.2.1
I have created a disc with web links and pdf links. I can install dvd@ccess on windows running XP, 2000, or 98. The links all work fine. But apparently I am told that DVD@ccess does not install on Vista. Is there an updated DVD@ccess installer? Is there a work around? Is there an alternative way from the PC to create a DVD that has weblinks, other than EDVD4, which Roxio discontinued? Anyone have any answers???

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,
-Jake

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.
That way, no interactive players or software needs to be installed, but your viewer needs to be made aware of the content.

DVD@ccess & eDVD together?

Hi There,
I'm making a DVD-rom with a lot of PDF material. I was recently well advised to use Sonic eDVD for better compatibility with PCs, however this looks like it will reduce functionality with Macs. So here's the question:
Can I use the Mac's DVD@ccess feature AND the eDVD feature on the same project ?
I imagine I just link the @ccess links to track markers, then build the VideoTS file and do it again in eDVD? So in theory a Mac will play the DVD through DVD Player and a PC will play it through whatever PCs play with.
BTW: I tried to post this on the Creative Cow forum but I can't seem to access it right now. Anyone else having this problem?
P

Hi Peter, I just caught this on the other thread...
My advice would be to stick to one or the other, not both. The reason being that whilst I think that you are right in theory, I don't think it would work in practice, simply because of the erratic way @ccess seems to work on PCs. Imagine the links all opening at once for no real reason, and the user not understanding why - this is a very likely prospect with @ccess present on a PC, regardless of whether or not the user has installed the @ccess.exe software, it seems (I am only going by what others have said about it, so apologies if this is incorrect).
If you can guarantee that no @ccess links will open on a PC (and this could be as simple as not providing the .exe software to install) then your idea might work. I am being particularly cautious as I simply don't know the answer, I'm afraid.

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

DVD@ccess and PDF linking

So I've successfully linked a 94 page PDF document, and it works no problem. (Although I can't wait to run the DVD on a PC) I use a track and set the DVD@ccess through the chapter points.
My question is; *does anyone know if DVD@ccess can direct a PDF reader to a specific page in the document?*
A client wants to be able to access certain pages of the PDF document from the DVD menu, as opposed to a menu within the document. And while I've read many articles on how to direct the reader via HTML, this doesn't seem to translate over to DVD@ccess.
Any thoughts, notes, hints, etc.
Thanks.

Hi Gary - I'm not knocking Intellidisc or how it works, but am bemoaning the fact that there isn't a reliable cross platform solution available. eDVD was as close as it got IMO, and I am of the opinion that the 1% of people do matter. The fact is that we as authors cannot reliably create a blended content disc that plays seamlessly on all platforms.
The issues with Vista will no doubt eventually be resolved. It is, after all, a new (ish) product and software will need to be revised in order to catch up. I also agree that a lot of folk won't migrate to vista very quickly, but there is inevitably a percentage who will do so. The proportion of folk who cannot play the content therefore increases beyond the 1% of mac users (until Vista issues are resolved) and thus, until Intellidisc, eDVD or @ccess can be made to work they are not providing a total solution.
We therefore come down to a numbers game. Which of these apps will give us the best coverage of end user machines, and best flexibility for the content we are adding? For example, @ccess can launch any app where the file type is known... as can eDVD, but Intellidisc works better if the file is a web based link?
I don't think I can say which is best - none of them give us what we need and each of us therefore has to choose between them when creating a disc with enhanced content. I ought to give Intellidisc a try - I have used the other two with fair degrees of success and ought to have some first hand knowledge of Intellidisc. I would like to know, for example, if the end user needs to run the .exe file and install some software - if so, what is the benefit over @ccess in that respect? If the install is automatic, then the argument will surely be why not include the same function with @ccess? The issues for me come back to the fact that @ccess and eDVD will launch any content (if they work at all) and Intellidisc is restricted to web based links and files.
But I agree entirely with the need for DVDSP to have this kind of thing built in - the software already does at least go some way towards it with the ROM content tools. All we need is a version of @ccess which reliably plays on a PC under all circumstances. Or for eDVD (or interactual) to fix the issues with the player in vista AND mac and make it available as a stand-alone... or for intellidisc to launch different types of content, and we should be home and dry... right?

DVD-ROM/DVD@ccess

I want to include some .pdf files on my dvd. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual correctly and can access the files directly on the burnt dvd so I am obviously getting part of the process right. However, I want the user to click on a button and a particular .pdf to open up. I have done the DVD@ccess bit on a menu and wonder if I am getting it wrong on the file path bit. Anyone got experience of doing this process?
Thanks in advance.
Niamh

I have in the past got internet access working and I do agree with you on the client situation if they have a PC. I've checked out Roxio eDVD on the internet and Sonic. Alas, these packages only work on a PC.
Since my first posting I have managed to get the internet and .pdf access working on the simulator but not on the burnt disc. I'm wondering if this could be a memory problem on my laptop and I'm about to visit the local library to check it out the disc on a PC.
Thank you for responding.
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I need a script that will allow me to search a windows pc for installed or missing DVD@CCESS, - promt for installation, and then install, - or pass on to play the DVD from first play. Obviously DVD@CCESS will be on the DVD in a directory ([email protected])
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Verny

Verny - welcome to the discussions.
The person who I know has done this is Alex Alexzander. You can contact him over at http://www.editorsbin.com
He is changing the site at the moment and may not have that particular tutorial online, but he definitely wrote it and created the scripts needed to get it working.

DVD d'installation d'applications

Bonjour,
J'ai reformaté mon mac avec le DVD d'installation il y a quelques temps sans soucis.
Lorsque j'ai voulu réinstaller mes applications grâce au DVD d'installation des applications (que j'ai eu avec l'achat de mon iMac) il ne fonctionnait pas. Je ne peux donc pas réinstaller les applications.
J'ai bien tester le lecteur DVD, il fonctionne bien avec d'autres DVD. Je suis donc sûre que le soucis vient du DVD d'installation.
Comment puis-je réinstaller mes applications sans avoir besoin de les payer ?
Cordialement.

Bonjour,
Vous pourriez appeler Apple avec votre numéro de série à portée de main et de voir si elles ont des disques de remplacement.
Ou, essayez de faire une copie du disque d'applications dans l'Utilitaire de disque et graver une nouvelle copie.

DVD-ROM Feature (DVD@ccess)

I recently finished creating a DL DVD and in one of the videos I put a DVD@cces marker to connect to a website. I followed the instructions in many tutorials and books to a tee. I burned the DVD and tried it in my Apple DVD player (after enabling DVD@ccess web links in the preferences) and it doesn't work.
Any thoughts?
One more concern:
Assuming I fix the problem, will this marker work on PC DVD players?
Thanks.

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.
If you want to put a microsite on a DVD then you can, and you can use a menu screen to inform your viewers that it is there. All that is missing is the ability to click a link in a menu and run the index file. You might get it working for some people, but not for all... but if you include it on a disc then at least there is something there for them to see.
The other thing to consider is that if you do include some HTML pages on your disc, when they are played in an internet enabled PC you can rely on the usual html links to call up further content not based on the DVD.

DVD@ccess problems

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.
2. Enable DVD@ccess on that menu
3. Type in the url complete with the http://
4. Link menu to desired button from main menu.
5. Simulate and test
I've doubled checked to make sure "Embed Text Data" is still activated and it still won't work. Please help, what the heck am I missing?!!

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.
Hope this helps -
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DVD@ccess and replication

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?
G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

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

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...

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