(CD-ROM Setup) BURNING CDROMS WITH 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

Let's say you want to create a CD with a whole bunch of photos AND you want Photo Jockey to be the viewer that AUTOMATICALLY comes up when the user puts the CDROM disc in the drive.

NOTE: Users ARE PERMITTED to burn Photo Jockey onto CDs that are given away. The reason is because, when Photo Jockey is run from a non registered machine, Photo Jockey is in non registered mode. So giving away Photo Jockey benefits both parties. Giving away your registration key is NOT PERMITTED.

You need to use your favorite CD burning software, like Roxio, Easy CD-Creator, Nero, etc... Use these softwares to burn the files you need onto your CD. This following section describes the files you will need to burn onto your CD-ROM. If you want Photo Jockey to do the CD-ROM burning for you automatically, then click here.

MANUAL CREATION OF CDROMS:
This is SO SIMPLE to do. Just go through the process that you would normally do to burn a CD of photos. Then put the following files onto the ROOT of the CD directory (not in a sub-folder):

PHOTOJOCKEY.EXE

PHOTOJOCKEY.DLL

PHOTOJOCKEY.RTF

VISTA_SETUP.EXE

AUTORUN.INF

All text comment files associated with the photos you are including, e.g. "Paris_001.jpg.txt"

All voice comment sound files associated with the photos you are including, e.g. "Paris_001.jpg.wav"

NOTE: The reason you need to put them in the ROOT directory (folder) of the CD is because the "AutoRun.Inf" file contains the auto load command to run PhotoJockey.Exe. If you put the program in a sub folder, then it(autorun.inf) won't find it(PhotoJockey.Exe) and thus the auto-load feature won't work and the program won't auto-load when you stick the CD into a CD ROM drive.

NOTE: If you NEED to put the program into a sub-folder and don't care about the "Autorun.inf" auto-load feature, then you can put the PhotoJockey.Exe and PHOTOJOCKEY.DLL and  PHOTOJOCKEY.RTF and VISTA_SETUP.EXE into the same sub-folder. Or course you will need to tell the user where the program is located on the CD so that they can run it. Or you would have to modify your Autorun.inf file.

Then once you have your CD burning software all ready, just burn it. Then when you place the new CD into a Windows based computer, the Photo Jockey program will AUTO-PLAY the photos. Any text/voice comments that you had created AND saved onto the CD will also be shown/played to the user as well.

TECH NOTE: If the folder where Photo Jockey is located on the CD-ROM contains only a few photos, then NO SLIDE SHOW action will take place. This is because the user can already SEE ALL the photos in the thumbnail list. If there are more photos, so that you can't see all the thumbnails on your screen at once, then Photo Jockey will come up in Slide Show mode.

MUSIC CLIPS TIP:
You can create a CD so that it plays music while the user watches the Slide Show. The sound file used to play the music should be named "SlideShow1.WAV" and MAKE SURE it's in the SAME folder as the images.

NOTE: If you would like many sound files to be played one after the other, then name them sequentially. For example: SlideShow1.Wav, SlideShow2.Wav, SlideShow3.Wav. If you had these 3 files, then each one would be played in sequence. Once all the wave files are played, then it starts back over again with the first one.
HINT: ONLY 1-9 are valid, so SlideShow10.Wav would be ignored.
TIP: To see the program option for playing music, click here.

Since you can have many folders of images, you could also have music clips in each of those folders. That way each folder can have it's own sound track while playing in slide show mode.

NOTE: You do NOT really need to place all your photos onto the ROOT directory. You could have several folders of photos if you wish. The text files and sound files must be in the appropriate folder with the associated photos.  The only thing you must keep in mind is that when the Photo Jockey tries to AUTO-PLAY after being inserted into the user's computer, it will come up and show the Folders the user can select, but will not auto play any pictures. The user must manually select a folder to view from. So, you might want to keep ONE photo on the ROOT folder of the CD-ROM. This could be an image that YOU create that maybe shows a sample photo of what's in each sub-folder on the CD. This is just a suggestion of course.

HINT: The TEXT comment files are the same name as your photo PLUS an extension of ".TXT" and the VOICE files have an extension of ".WAV". So, if you had a photo called "Paris_001.jpg" then the TEXT and VOICE files that you would need to copy would be called "Paris_001.jpg.txt" and "Paris_001.jpg.wav" respectively.



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