How do I get started with iHD?

HD DVD Resources

Application Development for HD DVD — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:03:43 GMT

Development Resources Introduction to HD DVD Authoring Getting Started with HD DVD (includes link to

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Peter Torr - MSFT — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:16:39 GMT

I'll try to cover that stuff, too. Thanks for the feedback!

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Gerrit L — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:52:41 GMT

Hi Peter,

First of all, thanks for all the effort to guide us dummies (speaking for myself) into the world of iHD.
Just a question, would it be possible to place some extra comment lines into your (most representative) samples? For instance, what's the URL in the beginning stands for? Since a player doesn't have to have an internet connection I don't understand the use of it...
Thanks in advance

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Gerrit L — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:58:06 GMT

Maybe check out the tutorials at :

http://www.w3schools.com/

Always nice to get you started from scratch...

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Peter Torr - MSFT — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:28:21 GMT

Hopefully the current consumer DVD authoring tools will come out with HD versions sooner or later. Point and click with templates will come sooner or later, but you won't get anything as cool as if you did it yourself from scratch :)

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Petri — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:14:20 GMT

Hi Peter!

Unfortunately I'm not a programmer. I do have some degree which kinda touched on that area, but I never found the necessary mindset for programming. I've created some HD DVDs of my own with Ulead VideoStudio 10+, but it doesn't use iHD. Perhaps I'm better off waiting for a commercial/shareware/freeware solution for easy iHD creation. You know, iHD for point'n'clickers with an easy to use GUI. I bet MS has something like that in development already :)

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Michael — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:08:26 GMT

One of the differences between iHD and WWW programming is that Web browsers are forgiving... iHDSim and to a much greater extent HD DVD players are not! It's the spec's way or no way -- for example, one missing semicolon in your script and the player will not play your content. This is perhaps a good thing, though -- there's not a morass of different behaviors and levels of implementation in different browsers to work around.

re: How do I get started with iHD?

Will Merydith — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:05:11 GMT

For those with very little HTML knowledge/experience I recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059610197X/sr=1-2/qid=1153238203/ref=sr_1_2/103-9560981-1639826?ie=UTF8&s=books">Head First HTML with CSS and XML</a>.

Coming from a web development background, and new to DVD authoring, I agree with Peter. The challenges I am facing right now are mostly wrapped up in the XPath based timing engine.