From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:54:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Made various small improvements. X-Git-Tag: 0.8~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6aa2e59ebb80ca204fc6c9d2e66e148272cab83;p=videolink.git Made various small improvements. --- diff --git a/videolink.1 b/videolink.1 index 6e65f2f..fcb2579 100644 --- a/videolink.1 +++ b/videolink.1 @@ -22,33 +22,43 @@ videolink \- assembles a DVD video filesystem from HTML pages and video files .SH DESCRIPTION .LP VideoLink converts an interlinked set of HTML pages and video files -into a DVD. Starting from a main menu page, it follows links and -encodes all linked pages as video files. It uses \fBdvdauthor\fR(1) -to assemble a DVD video filesystem containing the encoded pages and -other video files they link to. +into a DVD. Starting from a main menu page at \fImenu-url\fR, it +follows links and encodes all linked pages as video files. It uses +\fBdvdauthor\fR(1) to assemble a DVD video filesystem in +\fIoutput-dir\fR containing the encoded pages and other video files +they link to. +.LP +There are some restrictions on the content of the HTML pages, detailed +in \fBREADME.gz\fR. The existing video files are not converted and +therefore must conform to the DVD video specifications. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-preview .RS Selects preview mode. In preview mode, the pages are displayed in a -browser roughly as they will appear on a DVD player. +browser roughly as they will appear on a DVD player. No conversion +is done. .RE .TP .BI \-\-video-std " standard" .RS Selects the target video standard. This should match the standard -used for the video files. It affects the frame size and the frame -rate specified when encoding pages as video. The two standards can be -specified as "525", "525/60", "NTSC" or "ntsc" and as "625", "625/50", -"PAL" or "pal" respectively. +used for the existing video files. It affects the frame size and the +frame rate specified when encoding pages as video. The standard of +525-line frames and 59.94\ Hz interlaced fields, commonly called NTSC, +can be specified as "525", "525/60", "NTSC" or "ntsc". The standard +of 625-line frames and 50\ Hz interlaced fields, commonly called PAL, +can be specified as "625", "625/50", "PAL" or "pal"; this is the +default. .RE .TP .BI \-\-encoder " encoder" .RS Selects the program(s) used to encode pages to video. By default VideoLink calls \fBffmpeg\fR(1), but it can alternately use programs -from mjpegtools. The \fIencoder\fR can be "ffmpeg", "mjpegtools", or -"mjpegtools-old" for versions of mjpegtools prior to 1.8. +from mjpegtools and netpbm. The \fIencoder\fR can be "ffmpeg", +"mjpegtools", or "mjpegtools-old" for versions of mjpegtools prior to +1.8. .RE .SH AUTHOR Ben Hutchings .