Adobe Encore DVD: In the Studio

DVD Data Files

Next, let’s examine the contents of our example DVD, Planet Earth: North America. Because this DVD also supports the DVD-ROM format, we can open a Windows Explorer window, display the Folders side panel, and browse the contents of the inserted DVD. It’s helpful to go through this disc to give you an idea of what you might find in your own DVDs.

No matter which commercial DVD-ROM disc you look at, you’re likely to see a mess of files and directories. The Planet Earth: North America contents are shown in Figure 2-10. These include both DVD content and PC data files.

Figure 2-10. Use Windows Explorer to view the contents of a DVD as folders and data files.

BACKGROUND INFOWindows AutoPlay

Windows XP desperately wants to be helpful and do things automatically for you, both when you insert a DVD disc, and when you open the disc from Windows Explorer. Depending on how Windows is set up on your machine, the Windows AutoPlay feature may recognize the disc as a DVD-Video and automatically launch a DVD player application such as Windows Media Player. Alternatively, Windows may find the AUTORUN file on the disc and automatically launch the InterActual installer from the disc.

For the moment, just close or cancel any of these; we’ll get back to playing the disc in the next section. If you need to tame the AutoPlay feature, display the Properties dialog for the disc from a Windows Explorer ...