Welcome to the MicroDVD Test Page


Description: The MicroDVD is an experiment that takes
a music video DVD and converts it into an emailable/downloadable file that is completely self reliant, and requires no plug-ins or additional installations. The original DVD occupies over 1100 megabytes, whereas the MicroDVD only takes around 5 megabytes, about the same size as an MP3 file.

Versions: The first version includes the entire music videos, requiring them to be at the smallest size. Version 2 includes 60 second previews of each video, but the file size is smaller, video screen is larger, and the Highrise video in Version 2 has subtitles.

Background: The MicroDVD arises from early experimentation with Flash-based interactivity and streaming MP3 audio, draws from prototyping during the time the Macworld DVD Studio Pro Bible was written, making the leap from Flash-based animated music videos to multiple compressed digital video in a "DVD shell".

MicroDVD characteristics include:
- integration of traditional DVD functionality with Web-enhanced DVD content (Web links) into a single standalone file.
- full simulation of traditional DVD functionality, including transparent DVD button highlights.
- adaption of existing DVD menu design and video content, representing a new outlet for the same content, providing new promotional possibilities, such as the ability to have an emailable or downloadable excerpted versions of a DVD

Download Instructions:

Windows: Right-click on link below, choose Save Target As, then double-click
CobaltBlueMDVD to test. (4.88 megabytes)
Download MDVD

Mac: Hold the CTRL key down, click on link below, choose Download File to Disk,
then double-click CobaltBlueMDVD to test. (7 megabytes)
Download MDVD

Version 2 (See Description Above):
(Windows - 3 megabytes) Download MDVD2
(Mac - 4.4 megabytes) Download MDVD2

Let us know what you think!

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