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@@ -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