.\" videolink.1 written by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
.TH VIDEOLINK 1 "10 August 2006"
.SH NAME
videolink \- assembles a DVD video filesystem from HTML pages and video files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.HP
.BR videolink
.RI [ gtk-options ]
.B \-\-preview
.RB [ \-\-video-std
.IR standard ]
.I menu-url
.HP
.BR videolink
.RI [ gtk-options ]
.RB [ \-\-video-std
.IR standard ]
.RB [ \-\-encoder
.IR encoder ]
.br
.I menu-url output-dir
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
VideoLink converts an interlinked set of HTML pages and video files
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.  No conversion
is done.
.RE
.TP
.BI \-\-video-std " standard"
.RS
Selects the target video standard.  This should match the standard
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 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 <ben@decadent.org.uk>.
.SH SEE ALSO
dvdauthor(1), ffmpeg(1), gtk-options(7), /usr/share/doc/videolink/README\.gz