Removed version requirement on mjpegtools.

[videolink.git] / README

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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ WebDVD depends on the following software:
 - dvdauthor
 - expat 1.x
 - Gtkmm 2.0
-- mjpegtools 1.6.x (1.8 makes an incompatible change in usage of ppmtoy4m)
+- mjpegtools
 - Mozilla 1.7.x (later versions may work but are untested)
 - netpbm
 - Xvfb (from XFree86 or X.org)
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@ sequence ("title" in DVD terminology) or to add chapter marks to a
 video sequence, create and link to a VOB-list file (explained below)
 whose name ends in ".voblist".
 
-You can link to a title and begin playback at the beginning of a
-specific chapter by adding "#" and then the chapter number to the end
-of the URL.
-
 VOB-lists
 
 A VOB-list file is an XML file with the document element <vob-list>
@@ -88,6 +84,10 @@ 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 you use mjpegtools 1.6.2 or earlier you must add the option
+"--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.
+
 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