to the following commands.
To get a rough preview of the menus, run "webdvd --preview menu-url"
-where menu-url is the URL of the first page to show. Currently
-videos cannot be displayed in this preview mode; if you select one it
-will cause WebDVD to exit.
+where menu-url is the URL or filename of the first page to show.
+Currently videos cannot be displayed in this preview mode.
To create a DVD filesystem, run "webdvd menu-url output-dir" where
-menu-url is the address of the top menu page and output-dir is the
-directory in which to create the filesystem (which should be either
-nonexistent or empty). WebDVD will automatically follow links to the
-other pages and to the video files.
-
-If this is successful you can then use mkisofs to create a DVD image:
-
- mkisofs -dvd-video DIR > IMAGE
- rm -rf DIR
-
-Alternately you can write the filesystem directly to a writable DVD
-with growisofs or with mkisofs piped to a suitable version of
-cdrecord.
+menu-url is the URL or filename of the top menu page and output-dir is
+the directory in which to create the filesystem (which should be
+either nonexistent or empty). WebDVD will automatically follow links
+to the other pages and to the video files.
+
+If this is successful you can then use mkisofs to create a DVD image
+from the output directory. Alternately you can write this directory
+directly to a writable DVD with growisofs or with mkisofs piped to a
+suitable version of cdrecord.
Limitations
-----------
Add keyboard command for "top menu" in preview mode.
+Set Mozilla's idea of the pixel aspect ratio to match video pixels. (For extra credit, scale preview mode to correct for the differing aspect ratio.)
Add support for videos in preview mode.
Disable scrollbars (not sure how how to do this).
-May need to override default menu navigation actions because dvdauthor
-seems to cause rather undesirable behaviour when buttons are not
-arranged in a grid.
+May need to override default menu navigation actions because dvdauthor seems to cause rather undesirable behaviour when buttons are not arranged in a grid.
Search whole of history rather than just previous page when deciding whether a link goes back or forward.
For any page with no links, add a "back" link (this raises the issue of localisation, of course).
If a page is too large, split it and add "next" and "previous" links (seems very difficult).
+webdvd (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Implemented preview mode
+ * Added support for use of page filenames on the command line
+
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk> Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:33:45 +0000
+
webdvd (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Cleaned up command-line arguments