X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=9ad7990ebe1adc4523783f77ae930998feb7aa3f;hb=08d62241a742a68cde7cce7ffb7de7ffa62e538c;hp=e731c65b2b4bc26ba0760ee611c27a36889417aa;hpb=29939f2948999552a4af00560e4875b89aa8858e;p=videolink.git diff --git a/README b/README index e731c65..9ad7990 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ VideoLink depends on the following software: - dvdauthor - expat 1.x -- Gtkmm 2.0 -- ffmpeg or mjpegtools +- Gtkmm 2.4 or later +- ffmpeg or mjpegtools 1.8 or later - 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 @@ -108,10 +118,7 @@ to the other pages and to the video files. By default, VideoLink now calls ffmpeg to generate MPEG-2 streams for menus. If you want it to use mjpegtools as it previously did, you -must add the option "--encoder mjpegtools". If you use mjpegtools -1.6.2 or earlier you must instead use "--encoder mjpegtools-old". -This is due to an incompatible change in the syntax of the ppmtoy4m -command between versions 1.6.2 and 1.8. +must add the option "--encoder mjpegtools". If this is successful you can then use mkisofs to create a DVD image from the output directory. Alternately you can write this directory