There should really be no reason to produce video this way today. The idea of providing a CD with an Autoplay.exe dates back to when some computers didn't even have software that could play video and video file formats were not standard. They should be able to provide these in a way that is much more friendly to multiple platforms. That's your best bet.Ī better method would be to go back to whomever is generating these videos and explain that they are using an old method that only works on Windows. So the other day I waked up and entered to play some games on the pc, but when I tried to open the game a popup appeared saying Youll need a new app to open this. Once you find the video itself, you may be able to open it in QuickTime Player, or maybe the more versatile VLC app. I would look for files deep in there that are large and have extensions like. Most likely the video is another file there, perhaps in a subfolder.

This type of file is one of the most ubiquitous in the Windows operating system, where it is used to install or run software applications. Although it is possible to have the video embedded inside the application, I don't think that is what is happening here. exe extension are called executables, or EXE files. exe files are not the video, but the application that plays the video. It sounds like these are CDs that are supposed to autoplay when you insert the CD into a Windows computer. Naturally, you can only run these while running Windows.

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