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Pack and Go DVD Burning

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Ideally after is something akin to a self-extracting zip but only a self-burning DVD or as close to as possible. we want to be able to distribute DVDs over the internet for our clients to burn themselves, often this involves Nero or special software if you want to do it to the correct DVD standards, which we do, and either our clients don't have this software or will have difficulty using it.

Can anyone recommend anything?
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How about telling them how to emulate a drive using various tools or operating system features? Daemon Tools for PC, for example. Emulation is built into the Mac. :)
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Often they need to be burnt for the purposes of postage especially for countries where internet connections make downloading of video infeasible where that isn't the case it is usually because they aren't ready to make the cultural shift from putting something in a drive to watching it online also think about DVD players and playing away from a computer.

Anyway, I think something like Daemon tools would probably be too complex in fact.
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Is it not feasible to have the discs pressed? Even just-in-time pressing has gotten fairly cheap these days.
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We have a duplicator which has always been sufficient for any mass requirements but we're after something faster and cheaper than pressing and shipping and sending the files over the internet and getting the client to burn them in the country is usually it. Sometimes only 5 or so discs are required.
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There are facilities that offer cheap, short runs though.
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Still gotta be distributed hasn't it. And it's never going to be as fast. If you want to get DVD into Japan this afternoon, there's really only one way you can do it.
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What about this?
Just a quick search on google, haven't read through it ;)
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That link looks pretty cool. I haven't tried it, but I wonder how it works on windows systems that can't install the software that's in the iso.
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