Working with DVDs

DVD movies are an excellent source of high-quality images and sound. Training applications where television-quality images are crucial--for example, surgery training in hospitals--can be created by using DVD movies within Authorware. You can set up Authorware to automatically start and stop at specific points within a DVD movie, and you can give students playback controls so they can play, pause, or replay sections if necessary.

For information on how to set up DVD controls, see DVDs--step-by-step procedures.

Things to consider

To play a DVD movie from a DVD drive, you need the following components:

Note: A DVD drive usually comes with a CD that contains the necessary software, drivers, and codecs to run the DVD drive. If your DVD drive did not come with a codec, you might be able to download a free codec from the internet.


 

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