time limit

[paulbail]

Hi .I have tried to limit the time people can view a dvd presentation. On the options box their is time and runs, but these don't seem to be activated. how can i activate these controll. Thank in advance,Regards Paul

[Ken Cox]

If you have it burned to a dvd, the current consumer "average Joe" technology is not available...big studios are experimenting with this

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

This article is about the pay-per-view DVD system DIVX.

ken

[paulbail]

If you have it burned to a dvd, the current consumer "average Joe" technology is not available...big studios are experimenting with this

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

This article is about the pay-per-view DVD system DIVX.

ken

Dear Ken

Thankyou for your quick reply. So am I to understand that the option box protection of the presentation doesn't work and is totaly useless?

Regards Paul

[Lin Evans]

Dear Ken

Thankyou for your quick reply. So am I to understand that the option box protection of the presentation doesn't work and is totaly useless?

Regards Paul

It's PicturesToExe (pictures to executable file) and the options are very useful. The protection features found on the option box are for an executable presentation. You can deliver an executable presentation via a CD or DVD but not as a DVD presentation on a television but rather a computer presentation on a computer delivered via a Windows executable fie. If you "could" depend on the presentation being delivered via a rewritable CD or DVD being played in a DVD or CD player with write capabilities, it "might" be possible to alter the code as it's done on a computer file thus making the show die after so many iterations or after some prescibed date rolls around and assuming the user isn't savy enough to run the date back on the computer. But a show burned to a CD or DVD in that format can't necessarily be altered because of limitations of the technology - nothing at all to do with this program.

At present there is no economically feasible way to limit the number of views on a DVD show delivered via DVD. To do this with programming code requires the code to physically change after some period of time. This is easily accomplished when a file can be modified - but a show delivered via a CD or DVD and played from that media can't be altered since the technology is write once read many (WORM).

Lin

[paulbail]

It's PicturesToExe (pictures to executable file) and the options are very useful. The protection features found on the option box are for an executable presentation. You can deliver an executable presentation via a CD or DVD but not as a DVD presentation on a television but rather a computer presentation on a computer delivered via a Windows executable fie. If you "could" depend on the presentation being delivered via a rewritable CD or DVD being played in a DVD or CD player with write capabilities, it "might" be possible to alter the code as it's done on a computer file thus making the show die after so many iterations or after some prescibed date rolls around and assuming the user isn't savy enough to run the date back on the computer. But a show burned to a CD or DVD in that format can't necessarily be altered because of limitations of the technology - nothing at all to do with this program.

At present there is no economically feasible way to limit the number of views on a DVD show delivered via DVD. To do this with programming code requires the code to physically change after some period of time. This is easily accomplished when a file can be modified - but a show delivered via a CD or DVD and played from that media can't be altered since the technology is write once read many (WORM).

Lin

Thankyou Lin For that expination thats helpfull