How do I play a virtual drive?

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

"Jethro" wrote in message
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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.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:28:03 GMT, "meerkat" wrote:


"Jethro" wrote in message
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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.



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

Jethro

"Jethro" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:28:03 GMT, "meerkat" wrote:


"Jethro" wrote in message
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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.



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.

"Jethro" wrote ...

"meerkat" wrote:

"Jethro" wrote ...
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.

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.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro wrote:

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

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:51:55 GMT, Jethro wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro wrote:

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


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

"Jethro" wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:51:55 GMT, Jethro
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro
wrote:

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


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..

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:19:33 GMT, "meerkat" wrote:


"Jethro" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:51:55 GMT, Jethro
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro
wrote:

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


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..

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

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:27:16 -0500, Joel wrote:

Jethro wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:06:39 GMT, Jethro wrote:

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?

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.

Thanks

Jethro

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