MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-USING DIRECTOR Use Manual page 255

Linking to DVD media content
You can link to DVD media content by using the Insert menu or the DVD Editor, or you can use
scripting to set the folder property value. Setting the folder property will allow Director to play
DVDs from the hard drive or from the relative location of a movie/projector.
When you create a DVD cast member on a Windows computer using Director's user interface,
Director first looks for DVD media in the form of a video_ts folder in the first DVD disk drive
that contains a valid DVD disc. If no disk is found, Director then searches for a video_ts folder at
the root of the hard drive. On a Macintosh computer, a video_ts folder will only be detected
automatically if it resides on a DVD disc in the DVD drive.
Note: If you are using any of the following methods to link DVD media content to your movie, your
system must have the required drivers and decoders necessary to play DVD.
To link DVD media content to a movie by using the Insert menu:
Select Insert > Media Element > DVD.
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To link DVD media content to a movie by using the DVD Editor:
Select Window > DVD.
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The DVD Editor appears.
Enter a name for the DVD member in the Cast Member Name text box of the DVD Editor.
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Director creates a new DVD cast member in the first available Cast slot.
Director will attempt to automatically link to available DVD media using the DVD resources
that Director relies on to support DVD. For Windows, those resources are DirectX/DirectShow,
and third-party elements such as DVD decoders. Some of these decoders, which get installed with
DVD players, include WinDVD, PowerDVD, and ATI DVD. For Mactintosh, Director relies on
Apple's DVD Framework
To set the property value by using a script:
Use the following examples as a guide for setting the folder property through scripting. These
statements set the pathname of the DVD folder property.
Windows example
--Lingo syntax
member (2).folder = "C:\myLocalDVDContent\video_ts"
// JavaScript syntax
member (2).folder = "C:\\myLocalDVDContent\\video_ts";
Mactinosh example
--Lingo syntax
member (2).folder = "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/myLocalDVDContent"
// JavaScript syntax
member (2).folder = "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/myLocalDVDContent";
Note: When creating a DVD cast member, if a video_ts folder cannot be found when the DVD cast
member is created, an error alert will appear that says, "Unable to locate DVD volume." This alert will
appear only once per session. At that point, you can still name the new DVD member and then set its
folder property to a folder location that contains a valid video_ts folder.
Note: Two DVDs cannot be played on your computer at the same time. Make sure you are not
playing a DVD in Director at the same time as you are trying to play a DVD in a projector, as would be
the case if the Preview after publishing option is selected in Publish Settings when publishing a
projector.
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