Bootable Movies with eMoviX
12 August 2007If you ever desired to just boot your computer to watch a movie and then shut it down, then you need eMoviX.
Just for the sake of watching your favourite movie or TV show, you don’t want to either:
- Go through lot of steps of booting the OS, starting up the Movie Player and then searching for your movie to Play.
- Waste your precious Hard Disk Resources.
Using eMoviX, you can burn a CD or DVD with your favourite movies and just boot them to play.
You need a GNU/Linux OS to create the bootable CDs or DVDs with eMoviX. I am using Ubuntu 6.06 as my GNU/Linux OS.
All you need to do is to perform the following steps:
- Download emovix_0.9.0-1_all.deb from here
- Once you have downloaded, install the package as follows:
#sudo dpkg -i emovix_0.9.0-1_all.deb - Have your favourite movie/TV Show ready. The file can have multitude of formats. Make sure the format is supported by mplayer.
- Let’s just say the name of the movie is l.a.con.avi.
- Now just run the following command from the directory where your movie is present:
#mkmovixiso -t “L.A.Confidential” -o lacon.iso l.a.con.avi
Let me explain few of the options:
-t title of the CD/DVD
-o output filename of the iso
It will take about 20-25 minutes and then your bootable .iso will be ready. It displays the following message:
Your iso image is now in “/home/linuxer/Desktop/lacon.iso”:
-rw-r–r– 1 linuxer linuxer 834818048 2007-08-12 18:48 /home/linuxer/Desktop/lacon.iso
You can safely delete the temporary directory /tmp/movix-1186924140
Now you can safely burn this iso to a CD or DVD depending upon the size of the image using favourite burner for e.g K3b.
Now once the disk is ready, boot your computer with it to watch the movie.
The boot prompt will be displayed as follows:
After a while it boots and next screen is displayed:
Help will be displayed at the bottom regarding how to pause, forward, etc. Once you’re accustomed with the usage you can disable the help by pressing the v key. If you press v again help will be enabled.
Now the movie starts playing.
See the title yourself.
That’s it. Gift this CD/DVD to your friends.
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