YTCollege wrote:
A few years ago, I used Scenarist to author DVDs. With that, I used a program to enhance the DVD with web content and other computer files. When the user was watching the DVD in a DVD player, and wanted to view the PC content, it would navigate to a page that said it needed to be viewed on a computer. So if the same button was clicked while it was in a computer DVD-ROM, the content could be viewed. Does anyone know if Adobe can do anything like this? If so, what product? I am using CS3 Production Premium, currently.
Thanks!
There's really nothing to stop you doing this manually with Encore, and now that there is the Flash option, you can even set up a replica of the DVD in flash format to run in ROM mode.
All you need to do this manually is either skill in writing HTML code, and you can put whatever you like in ROM - you can build a whiole website if you choose to or better still include URL to access a specially created website on a server.
This could be updated & enhanced all the time, and the entry point will remain off the DVD. How you would make the code is frankly well beyond me but I don't see why you need anything special to do this outside Encore/Premiere/Photoshop unless you want to use Dreamweaver or even Director for some serious content.
AFAIK, eDVD used a version of XML that is utterly incompatible with Vista in some way (cannot for the life of me remember the details) so was quietly abandoned. You may still find old stock on a shelf somewhere though.
