Video standards
-By default, webdvd generates PAL/SECAM video. If you wish to produce
-NTSC DVDs you can override this by adding the option "--video-std ntsc"
-to the following commands.
+The encoding of analogue TV and video signals varies in many different
+ways between countries. Happily there are only two parameters that
+matter for standard-definition digital video, and two different pairs
+of values. You can choose between these with the --video-std option:
+
+Analogue parameters | Region of world | --video-std | Frame
+ | | argument | size
+----------------------+------------------------------+-------------+--------
+59.94 fields/second, | Americas except Argentina, | 525 | 720x576
+interlaced; | Paraguay, Uruguay; | or 525/60 |
+525 lines/frame | Japan; Laos; Myanmar; | or NTSC |
+(commonly called | Philippines; South Korea; | or ntsc |
+ NTSC) | Taiwan; some Pacific islands | |
+----------------------+------------------------------+-------------+--------
+50 fields/second, | Rest of world | 625 | 720x480
+interlaced; | | or 625/50 |
+625 lines/frame | | or PAL |
+(commonly called PAL) | | or pal |
+
+The default is to use "PAL" parameters.
+
+Currently
Preview
Each page must fit within the frame - DVD players do not support
scrolling menus and WebDVD currently is not able to split them into
-multiple menus. The standard frame size for PAL and SECAM is 720x576
-pixels; for NTSC it is 720x480 pixels. The exact visible area varies
-between TVs so the background should cover all or very nearly all the
-frame whereas the important content such as text must not be placed
-near the edge. For this reason WebDVD applies a stylesheet to all
-pages that adds 60 pixels of padding on all sides of the body; this
-doesn't apply to the background.
+multiple menus. The frame size is dictated by the video standard; see
+above. The exact visible area varies between TVs so the background
+should cover all or very nearly all the frame whereas the important
+content such as text must not be placed near the edge. For this
+reason WebDVD applies a stylesheet to all pages that adds 60 pixels of
+padding on all sides of the body; this doesn't apply to the
+background.
Prior to Mozilla version 1.8, which I have not yet tested, Mozilla may
signal that a page is completely loaded before any background images
// ranging from 10 to 25 inches wide, for a resolution of
// 24-60 dpi. I therefore declare the average horizontal
// resolution to be 40 dpi. The vertical resolution will be
- // slightly higher (PAL/SECAM) or lower (NTSC), but
- // unfortunately Mozilla doesn't support non-square pixels
- // (and neither do fontconfig or Xft anyway).
+ // slightly different but unfortunately Mozilla doesn't
+ // support non-square pixels (and neither do fontconfig or Xft
+ // anyway).
check(pref_service->GetDefaultBranch("browser.display",
getter_AddRefs(pref_branch)));
check(pref_branch->SetIntPref("screen_resolution", 40));