In case you missed the announcement in the Ziotek thread, LoadDVD 0.4 is available with Dacal / Ziotek - style carusel support. Menu has been simplified. Thanks to Carlos for testing with his Ziotek units.

Quoting dgruehn:

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This questions relates to loading an ISO file from a network share.  I have installed LoadDVD properly and set upo the parameters in the personalize section.  The issue is getting an ISO file to autoplay when selecting (Auto)Openlay:Select menu option.  It looks like LoadDVD attempts to launch the file but gives me an "error in command line" error message.  I am using Daemon tools CD drive emulator and tested that this works when I manually mount a DVD.  Has anyone figured out how to make this work?  Essentially I need to get Vista to launch an ISO file when I double click it...  Much appreciated

Installing deamon tools on my Vista machine. Ok, I confirm that this doesn't work. I also have problems with file association for .avi files on Vista. There seems to be a dual file associations process that I don't understand in both Vista and XP. "Double Click" and "Open" usually cause the same thing to happen - but not always. So, I caan double click on just about anything in XP and/or Vista, and my trusty VLC player plays it.

But on Vista, when I "open" in LoadDVD, .ISOs and .AVIs don't work. Just .mpeg, .jpeg, .mp3 ....

And on my XP machine - Nero Burning Rom wants to eat the .ISO file when I open with LoadDVD, yet VLC player is called (as I expected) when I double click from windows explorer. Go figure. On my XP/MCE machine, I don't have Nero, and VLC player is always called.

I have three test machines, XP/MCE, XP Pro and XP Vista Premium, and I get different things. My most recent tests were on the machine where my ISO associations worked - and I missed the fact that it was not working on Vista. Sorry.

So, I have a solution in mind - it is basically allowing you to specify an autoplay override - an explicit path to a program that you know works for your file. It will probably take me a couple of days to release 0.5.

As a second option, I could add batch file invocation (ala USBIRT.BAT and RS232.BAT) and just pass the "filepath" from the Personal Information Notes. The BAT file can be easily set up to call any program. I already tried that, and it worked.

Kind of clunky, but at least we can overcome the association debacle until somebody filgures out a way around Mr. Gates.

Could this work for you?

Quoting dgruehn:

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I tried updatine the registry for daemon as follows without success:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\daemon.exe\shell\open\command
Default C:\\Program Files\d-tools\daemon.exe -mount 0,\\Movie1\Babel.iso

No luck there.

I have gotten Daemon to execute this .bat file successfully:
@echo off
C:\Progra~1\d-Tools\daemon.exe -unmount 0
C:\Progra~1\d-Tools\daemon.exe -mount 0,\\Movie1\share\Babel.iso

Fires up WMP just fine and launches movie.  But I cannot get the .bat file to execute from within DVD Profiler using your notes area.  It gives me "Please check file path and file association and retry" error.

Ok, working on it. If fact, I'll even use the same movie ... he he.

Oh, if you have that handy BAT file, try this: rename it to USBIRT.BAT and put "usbirt" in the location field for that disc. This will be a quick feasibility test of my klunky workaround.

If it works, then it is fairly easy for me to pass the "Babel" or "Babel.iso" or whatever you need from the profile. Obviously it wouln't make sense to have to hardcode the BAT file with the moivie names ...

Thanks for the super quick turnaround.  Looks like you nailed the problem.  I'll wait for the .05 version fix although having the ability to call .bat files would be helpful if you wanted to utilize daemon's line commands.  Awesome addin BTW - is there a way to donate to the cause for your efforts?  I tried using the My Movie addin for MCPC but it was a little clunky so I'm just going to use DVD Profiler and launch movies from there using your pgm.

LoadDVD v0.6 Released
(1) Rearranged menu structure (again) to make it more convenient and intuitive. Now to play a DVD (or file) or to select a disc from a supported carousel, right-click on the DVD profile and "Play/Retrieve Disc" -> Disc#. Also, there is a custom LoadDVD toolbar, with an icon representing each disc in the profile. Select a profile, then click the disk toolbar icon to play.

(2) Dacal / Ziotek support changed slightly to retract the last carousel arm before the next move.

(3) End User License Agreement (EULA) has been added.

I'm testing loadDVD 0.7 with several Dacal DC-101 units. At first selection, it rotates the unit but displays an eject error. Probably because the DC-101 does not have an automatic door. Any subsequent access produces an I/O error.
I presume this error is due to the Busy status remaining ON after the failing eject operation.
Is there anyway to ignore this status and continue normal operations?

Another trouble, I have 6 units connected. During the previous test, I wanted to access dacal5, slot 144. The unit dacal6 responded to the command... In dacal software the units respond correctly to their sequences.

I have the following problem. I installed DVDProfiler and your plugin on several Pc`s in my network. On one PC the database file works well but on the other one I get the wrong Path message. The database is always the same.

I have no problems with the DVDProfiler on all systems. The only problem is, that I can`t start the files with the plugin on two of my systems, using the "play" command of the plugin. The "LoadDVD-plugin" is listed in the plugin menu. I use on all systems the same database. I will do your suggestion to reinstall DVDProfiler and the plugin. By the way. Your plugin is terrific and very usefull.