Method and apparatus for multimedia playback with title specific parameters

An article comprising:

• a removable storage medium having a plurality of machine readable instructions and digital multimedia content, wherein when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions provide for the secure automatic playback of the digital multimedia content stored on the removable storage medium by an apparatus in an author-controlled title specific manner, the instructions including:
• a player application to render the digital multimedia content for a user;
• an auto-installer script for automatically installing the player application;
• at least one access module bundled with the auto-installer script and the player application on the removable storage medium to control access to the digital multimedia content through
• decrypting the digital multimedia content to produce decrypted content according to the author-controlled title specific parameters,
• providing a user with an interface according to the author-controlled title specific information,
• decoding and decompressing the decrypted content to produce decoded content, and
• downsampling the decoded content to produce data for rendering according to the author-controlled title specific parameters in response to a user input;
• and
• author-controlled title specific parameters to be used by the access module to provide a user with an interface and control at least one of decoding, decompressing and downsampling of the digital multimedia content, in an author-controlled title specific manner.