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@@ -17,10 +17,14 @@ VideoLink depends on the following software:
 
 - dvdauthor
 - expat 1.x
-- Gtkmm 2.0
-- ffmpeg or mjpegtools
+- Gtkmm 2.4 or later
+- either of:
+  - ffmpeg including mpeg2video encoding
+    ("ffmpeg -formats" should show "DEVSDT mpeg2video" in the codecs section)
+  - both of:
+    - mjpegtools 1.8 or later
+    - netpbm
 - Mozilla 1.8 or later, or XULRunner
-- netpbm
 - Xvfb (from XFree86 or X.org)
 
 To build a complete DVD image you will also need:
@@ -67,6 +71,14 @@ 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:
+
+    <a href="movie.voblist#1">Chapter 1</a><br>
+    <a href="movie.voblist#2">Chapter 2</a><br>
+    <a href="movie.voblist#3">Chapter 3</a><br>
+    <a href="movie.voblist#4">Chapter 4</a>
+
 Video standards
 
 The encoding of analogue TV and video signals varies in many different
@@ -90,14 +102,14 @@ interlaced;           |                              | or 625/50   |
 
 The default is to use "PAL" parameters.
 
-Currently 
-
 Preview
 
 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 +120,7 @@ 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
@@ -139,13 +148,6 @@ reason VideoLink applies a stylesheet to all pages that adds padding
 equal to 10% of the frame dimension on each side of the body; this
 doesn't apply to the background.
 
-Prior to version 1.8, Mozilla may signal that a page is completely
-loaded before any background images are loaded and displayed.  This
-can result in VideoLink converting the page without the background
-images.  If VideoLink is built with an older version of Mozilla you
-can work around this by using absolutely-positioned "inline" images,
-since Mozilla will always wait for these to load.
-
 DVD players do not have "back" buttons, so you should generally
 provide links to "higher" menu pages.  However, they do have a button
 for returning to the top menu.