USB Autoplay?

[bobohearn]

I have produced a patient education video touting our product and I thought a cool way of disseminating it out to customers was to put it on one of those usb "thumb drives". The ones that could be put on a key chain. My question is, is there a way to have the video autostart when the usb drive is connected or will I need to instruct the recipient to go to My Computer? It will be in either an mpeg 1,Flash or wmv format. Any help would be appreciated.

[Corey]

Hmmmm, interesting. Very interesting. Let us know how it turns out in the end, this is intriguing. :)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[TJ_Tigger]

If you google usb autorun you will find a lot of different sites. Here is a link to a thread on these forums discussing the information too.

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6398&highlight=usb+autorun

Tigg

[Intrigued]

From what I understand (and have witnessed with my Cruzer drive) is that the Plug&Play action will work with Windows ME and newer O.S. by default only.

So with Windows 95, 98(1st ED.), 98(2nd. ED.) you will need to install a 'driver' before the thumb drive will even be seen by the computer!

[Late Addition]

Here is a Microsoft link to this topic:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/bus/usb/usbfaq.mspx