Posting VIRTUAL TOUR in DVD menu

I'm creating a recruitment DVD for a seminary, and they've asked me to add some of their virtual tour files in a sub-menu on the DVD. I know these virtual tour files require a plug-in to play them from the internet, is there anyway for them to play from a DVD?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
kt

Crossposting is generally unnecessary. This is a DVDSP-specific topic.
If you convert them to movies, yes, but they're no longer interactive.
You need to know what application these tours are running in. It's probably designed for a plugin that runs in a web browser. A DVD player plays DVDs, the application may or may not support links to other applications and provide access to those files.
You can easily store the files on the DVD as additional data content and you might be able to use DVD@ccess to trigger a local web session but the results are never what you expect and the application is spotty or completely useless on a PC. You will want to experiment and create many coasters.
There are probably more recent developments in this arena but your research may take you to other authoring systems besides DVDSP.
bogiesan

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