How do you password protect media when burning a CD?

[tzengCS]

Hi everyone

I have some important audio and video files recorded from meetings at our workplace. The are all in RealAudio or RealVideo format.

I would like to burn all these files onto a CD but I want to password protect them.

The problem is though, that I would like for the media just be be played directly off the CD from the CD Rom Drive.

I know there are programs out there like WinRar where you can compress a file and password protect it. But then you have to copy the file to the computer and decompress the file in order to access it. I don't want to copy the file to the computer at all.

Is there any program out there that can do this?

Is there a way to password protect the entire CD?

Also, is there any program that can prevent the CD from being burned?

Thank you for any responses. Any suggestions would help.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Well, you can put a program on the CD set to "autorun" on Windows computers and ask for a password, but that's really no protection at all since all a person has to do is close the program (using Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-Tab).

Even people who don't know how to do that can just un-check "auto insert notification" box for the CD drive then the autorrun feature is disabled.

So no, you need to encrypt the data on the CD unless your users are really naive about Windows.