X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=1f632c0634fa3c31686e4cf3a8d7d5eb13133457;hb=5a15c27d8333ea167ffd41aa6017bcb7a10b1be8;hp=fa2fdddf9828f85bb23237c50be013ded30c1175;hpb=84fb85103e80499cc8dc7929375e9a1798e043da;p=videolink.git diff --git a/README b/README index fa2fddd..1f632c0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ VideoLink depends on the following software: - dvdauthor - expat 1.x -- Gtkmm 2.0 +- Gtkmm 2.4 or later - ffmpeg or mjpegtools -- Mozilla 1.7.8 or later, or XULRunner +- Mozilla 1.8 or later, or XULRunner - netpbm - Xvfb (from XFree86 or X.org) @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ This will result in a title with the following chapters: 4: main.vob 17:45- end 5: credits.vob +You can link to the start of a chapter by adding "#" and the chapter +number after the VOB-list's file name. For example: + + Chapter 1
+ Chapter 2
+ Chapter 3
+ Chapter 4 + Video standards The encoding of analogue TV and video signals varies in many different @@ -98,6 +106,8 @@ To get a rough preview of the menus, run "videolink --preview menu-url" where menu-url is the URL or filename of the first page to show. Currently videos cannot be displayed in this preview mode. +Press T to go to the "top" (main) menu or Q to quit. + Processing To create a DVD filesystem, run "videolink menu-url output-dir" where @@ -183,30 +193,18 @@ appears to be an absolute limit of 12800 menus on a DVD. Bugs ---- -Under Mozilla 1.7, VideoLink sets the assumed screen resolution to -40 dpi, which I reckon to be the average resolution of a standard -definition TV display. This should mean that text with a font size -expressed in millimetres or points will appear around the specified -size. Unfortunately this setting has a different effect under -Mozilla/XULRunner 1.8: - -Mozilla Assumed Requested Actual size -version resolution size (pixels) (inches) - (dpi) - - 1.7 default:96 20 px 20 0.5 - 1.7 default:96 36 pt 48 1.2 - 1.7 40 20 px 20 0.5 - 1.7 40 36 pt 20 0.5 - 1.8 default:96 20 px 20 0.5 - 1.8 default:96 36 pt 48 1.2 - 1.8 40 20 px 48 1.2 - 1.8 40 36 pt 48 1.2 - -From version 0.10, until I have a proper solution, VideoLink will not -set the assumed screen resolution under Mozilla 1.8. I must advise -against using font sizes in millimetres or points since they will vary -between browser versions. +VideoLink should set the assumed screen resolution to 40 dpi, which I +reckon to be the average resolution of a standard definition TV +display. This would mean that text with a font size expressed in +millimetres or points will appear around the specified size. +Earlier versions of VideoLink did this when built to use Mozilla 1.7. +Unfortunately the resolution setting in Mozilla 1.8 actually affects +measurements in pixels and not measurements in millimetres or points! +The assumed screen resolution is always 96 dpi. + +Please specify measurements such as font sizes in pixels because +measurements in millimetres or points are liable to change if and when +I can override the assumed screen resolution again. Author and copyright --------------------