How do I play a virtual drive?

[Jethro]

I created a virtual drive equating to a folder on my HDD. Now how do
I execute the drive to simulate playing a disk in a drive?

Thanks

Jethro

 

[meerkat]

I created a virtual drive equating to a folder on my HDD. Now how do
I execute the drive to simulate playing a disk in a drive?

virtual drive equating to a folder

Read what you wrote <g>.
You don`t play folders.
You `play` what`s IN the folder.

 

[Jethro]

virtual drive equating to a folder

Read what you wrote <g>.
You don`t play folders.
You `play` what`s IN the folder.

Yep - The content of the folder is what would be the content of a
disk. Same question.

Jethro

 

[Vic Baron]

Yep - The content of the folder is what would be the content of a
disk. Same question.

Jethro

How would you 'play' the file in a normal folder? Do the same thing to the
file in the virtual folder.

 

[VanguardLH]

Yep - The content of the folder is what would be the content of a
disk. Same question.

Use a player that supports whatever files you have there.

 

[Jethro]

I created a virtual drive equating to a folder on my HDD. Now how do
I execute the drive to simulate playing a disk in a drive?

Thanks

Jethro

I can see I didn't ask the question right.

I copied the content of a video VCD disk into a folder d:\testfolder.
Then I created f: as a virtual drive representing d:\testfolder.
Now - how do I then play that video from f: and not the actual disk
drive? Or can I?

Thanks

Jethro

 

[Jethro]

I can see I didn't ask the question right.

I copied the content of a video VCD disk into a folder d:\testfolder.
Then I created f: as a virtual drive representing d:\testfolder.
Now - how do I then play that video from f: and not the actual disk
drive? Or can I?

Thanks

Jethro

By way of further explanation - you can see from my earlier posts that
I cannot seem to make a auto-playing VCD disk despite following clear
instruction on the web as to how to do it. And I am tired of wasting
disks to make my tests. So I thought to simulate a disk via a virtual
drive. So that is what I am really up to. The content I said above
that I copied is the content of a VCD disk that should have auto
played but does not. I thought I could play some with the elements
that were supposed to make it work, but I wanted to stop wasting
disks.

I hope this makes things clearer

Thanks

Jethro

 

[meerkat]

By way of further explanation - you can see from my earlier posts
that
I cannot seem to make a auto-playing VCD disk despite following
clear
instruction on the web as to how to do it. And I am tired of
wasting
disks to make my tests. So I thought to simulate a disk via a
virtual
drive. So that is what I am really up to. The content I said above
that I copied is the content of a VCD disk that should have auto
played but does not. I thought I could play some with the elements
that were supposed to make it work, but I wanted to stop wasting
disks.

I hope this makes things clearer

Hi J. now we`re getting somewhere.
You`re experimenting with discs.
My own experiments are Always carried out with CD-RW, or
DV-RW discs.
That way, you don`t knacker dozens of discs, and when you`ve
sorted any problems, you burn the final.

RW discs are of course erasible, and re-usable.(big floppies).
bw..

 

[Joel]

I can see I didn't ask the question right.

I copied the content of a video VCD disk into a folder d:\testfolder.
Then I created f: as a virtual drive representing d:\testfolder.
Now - how do I then play that video from f: and not the actual disk
drive? Or can I?

It seems like you *still* asking the wrong question <bg>

- Q. How to play from virtual drive?
A. just play just like any other drive

- Q. what is the benefit from using virtual drive (VirtualCD/DVD)
A. So you can run directly from ISO file without having to burn to CD/DVD

- Q. How can I play video from virtual drive?
A. You just need to use Video Player to load video file from virtual
drive.

- Q. How can I play VCD disc?
A. Most video players should play VCD format.

- If it isn't auto-play then you will have to load the video file manually

- If the video file isn't .MPG or standard video extention (example VCD
uses .DAT) then you will have to tell the Video Player to load/play
.DAT file.

- Q. Do I need to copy from virtual drive to hard drive?
A. you are free to do whatever you wish, or unless you want to file on
hard drive instead of ISO, else nothing can stop you from running
directly from virtual drive.

Or *if* you can copy from virual drive then of course you can run from
virtual drive.

 

[Jethro]

Hi J. now we`re getting somewhere.
You`re experimenting with discs.
My own experiments are Always carried out with CD-RW, or
DV-RW discs.
That way, you don`t knacker dozens of discs, and when you`ve
sorted any problems, you burn the final.

RW discs are of course erasible, and re-usable.(big floppies).
bw..

That'll work. I guess I can't mount (old UNIX term - I remember the
days!) the virtual drive as a cd drive and play it huh?

Jethro

 

[Jethro]

It seems like you *still* asking the wrong question <bg>

- Q. How to play from virtual drive?
A. just play just like any other drive

- Q. what is the benefit from using virtual drive (VirtualCD/DVD)
A. So you can run directly from ISO file without having to burn to CD/DVD

- Q. How can I play video from virtual drive?
A. You just need to use Video Player to load video file from virtual
drive.

- Q. How can I play VCD disc?
A. Most video players should play VCD format.

- If it isn't auto-play then you will have to load the video file manually

- If the video file isn't .MPG or standard video extention (example VCD
uses .DAT) then you will have to tell the Video Player to load/play
.DAT file.

- Q. Do I need to copy from virtual drive to hard drive?
A. you are free to do whatever you wish, or unless you want to file on
hard drive instead of ISO, else nothing can stop you from running
directly from virtual drive.

Or *if* you can copy from virual drive then of course you can run from
virtual drive.

As Meerkat suggested, I can use VCD-RW disks to test my creations as I
make them and thereby not continue wasting VCD-R disks. I still would
have to go through the artifice of creating a new disk to 'play' each
time. I was trying to avoid that - but I still see no way to actually
play the content of an existing disk from a copy (files - not image)
of same on hard disk. All this to try to determine why a stated
method of making a VCD disk auto-playable (with autorun.inf and
vcd.asx) doesn't want to work at least for me.

Oh well

Jethro

 

[meerkat]

As Meerkat suggested, I can use VCD-RW disks to test my creations as
I
make them and thereby not continue wasting VCD-R disks. I still
would
have to go through the artifice of creating a new disk to 'play'
each
time. I was trying to avoid that - but I still see no way to
actually
play the content of an existing disk from a copy (files - not image)
of same on hard disk. All this to try to determine why a stated
method of making a VCD disk auto-playable (with autorun.inf and
vcd.asx) doesn't want to work at least for me.

One more try.
You say you have created an autorun VCD, and it won`t autorun ?.
If it doesn`t, it must have a fault ??.
Go to www.google.com, and type in create autorun VCD,
you`ll get loads of hits to investigate.

 

[Jethro]

One more try.
You say you have created an autorun VCD, and it won`t autorun ?.
If it doesn`t, it must have a fault ??.

That's an understatement. I can't agree with you more. I followed
explicitly the instructions to make a video vcd disk autorunnable
(autoplayable, whatever).
The instructions also say that such a disk, although patched to
autoplay on a computer, will not affect playing on a stand-alone
player. Not so. I have three players and my supposedly autorunnable
disk will not play at all. This despite the fact that the original
plays just fine on same players. Hence my dismay.

Go to www.google.com, and type in create autorun VCD,
you`ll get loads of hits to investigate.

Been there - done that.

Thanks anyway

Jethro

 

[Joel]

Hi J. now we`re getting somewhere.
You`re experimenting with discs.
My own experiments are Always carried out with CD-RW, or
DV-RW discs.
That way, you don`t knacker dozens of discs, and when you`ve
sorted any problems, you burn the final.

RW discs are of course erasible, and re-usable.(big floppies).
bw..

VirtualCD works similar to CD-RW and even better. And if it doesn't work
on virtualCD then the chance for it to work on CD-RW is pretty slim.

I work with video, and sometime I have to combine 2 ISOs onto single DVD,
and I don't have 2 DVDs with 2 DVD-RW to do the job. With VirtualCD I just
mount 2 ISOs to 2 VirtualCD and I have 2 DVD-RWs <bg>

 

[Joel]

As Meerkat suggested, I can use VCD-RW disks to test my creations as I
make them and thereby not continue wasting VCD-R disks. I still would
have to go through the artifice of creating a new disk to 'play' each
time. I was trying to avoid that - but I still see no way to actually
play the content of an existing disk from a copy (files - not image)
of same on hard disk. All this to try to determine why a stated
method of making a VCD disk auto-playable (with autorun.inf and
vcd.asx) doesn't want to work at least for me.

Oh well

Jethro

And as I have mentioned (in other message) that if it doesn't work on
VirtualCD then the chance for it to work on CD-RW is pretty slim. Because
VirtualCD supposes to work as *real* CD (unless you have problem with your
VirtualVD but it doesn't seem like you do).

 

[Joel]

That's an understatement. I can't agree with you more. I followed
explicitly the instructions to make a video vcd disk autorunnable
(autoplayable, whatever).
The instructions also say that such a disk, although patched to
autoplay on a computer, will not affect playing on a stand-alone
player. Not so. I have three players and my supposedly autorunnable
disk will not play at all. This despite the fact that the original
plays just fine on same players. Hence my dismay.



Been there - done that.

Actually I still haven't seen what is the problem exactly besides can't
get something to work.

1. *If* it's a VCD disc (video) and it won't work. I still can't get this
part because no info from you.

- You can always Re-Author and I can warrantee 99.99% it will work

2. Well, I really don't have anything else to say, *unless* there is no
video file, or something is wrong with the video file then I will need to
know more in order to feed more info.

And if it's video (VCD) then auto-play stuff won't cut because it isn't
part of any video CD/DVD.

 

[kony]

By way of further explanation - you can see from my earlier posts that
I cannot seem to make a auto-playing VCD disk despite following clear
instruction on the web as to how to do it. And I am tired of wasting
disks to make my tests. So I thought to simulate a disk via a virtual
drive. So that is what I am really up to. The content I said above
that I copied is the content of a VCD disk that should have auto
played but does not. I thought I could play some with the elements
that were supposed to make it work, but I wanted to stop wasting
disks.

Use a burning app that supports creation of a CD Image, an
*.ISO file (Nero, etc). Next install a virtual drive
application like Daemon Tools. After the system has
rebooted (IIRC, it will need a reboot), use the Daemon Tools
icon in the tray to mount this ISO image, then it will
appear. One thing I am not certain about doing this (since
I leave autoinsert and autoplay functions disabled) is
whether it will initiate the autoplay functionality the
moment after the disc is mounted... I suspect so, but have
not tried it.

 

[kony]

As Meerkat suggested, I can use VCD-RW disks to test my creations as I
make them and thereby not continue wasting VCD-R disks. I still would
have to go through the artifice of creating a new disk to 'play' each
time. I was trying to avoid that - but I still see no way to actually
play the content of an existing disk from a copy (files - not image)
of same on hard disk.

Make the ISO image file,
use this to mount it:
http://filehippo.com/download_daemon_tools/

Note that the latter versions have an adware you need to
deselect to keep it from installing during the installation
process, it might require choosing a "custom" install then
deselecting the checkbox.

 

[Joel]

Use a burning app that supports creation of a CD Image, an
*.ISO file (Nero, etc). Next install a virtual drive
application like Daemon Tools. After the system has
rebooted (IIRC, it will need a reboot), use the Daemon Tools
icon in the tray to mount this ISO image, then it will

If it requires to reboot (something isn't right) then I would suggest to
use another virtualCD program instead. I am using Alcohol 120% which is not
only virtualCD/DVD but it's also ISO burner (which supports just about all
popular ISO formats). Or if reboot is required then I don't think I can get
much done as I often either converting, authoring, downloading or in middle
of something.

IOW, a normal VirtualCD should let you Mound/UnMound anytime you want, and
shouldn't require rebooting.

 

[Jethro]

If it requires to reboot (something isn't right) then I would suggest to
use another virtualCD program instead. I am using Alcohol 120% which is not
only virtualCD/DVD but it's also ISO burner (which supports just about all
popular ISO formats).

Hmmm - I don't see that Alcohol creates an ISO image - just .mds and
..ccd. Is that so?
Jethro