- dvdauthor
- expat 1.x
-- Gtkmm 2.0
-- ffmpeg or mjpegtools
-- Mozilla 1.7.8 or later, or XULRunner
-- netpbm
+- Gtkmm 2.4 or later
+- either of:
+ - ffmpeg including mpeg2video encoding
+ ("ffmpeg -formats" should show "DEVSDT mpeg2video" in the codecs section)
+ - both of:
+ - mjpegtools 1.8 or later
+ - netpbm
+- Mozilla 1.8 or later, or XULRunner 1.9 or later
- Xvfb (from XFree86 or X.org)
To build a complete DVD image you will also need:
-- mkisofs
+- either of:
+ - genisoimage (from cdrkit)
+ - mkisofs (from cdrtools)
You will also need a program for producing DVD-suitable MPEG-1 or
MPEG-2 video files.
Linking to video
You can link directly to local MPEG video files whose names end in
-".mpeg", ".mpeg2" or ".vob". If you wish to combine multiple files
-into a single video 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".
+".mpeg", ".mpeg2", ".mpg" or ".vob". If you wish to combine multiple
+files into a single video 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".
VOB-lists
4: main.vob 17:45- end
5: credits.vob
+You can link to the start of a chapter by adding "#" and the chapter
+number after the VOB-list's file name. For example:
+
+ <a href="movie.voblist#1">Chapter 1</a><br>
+ <a href="movie.voblist#2">Chapter 2</a><br>
+ <a href="movie.voblist#3">Chapter 3</a><br>
+ <a href="movie.voblist#4">Chapter 4</a>
+
Video standards
The encoding of analogue TV and video signals varies in many different
The default is to use "PAL" parameters.
-Currently
-
Preview
To get a rough preview of the menus, run "videolink --preview menu-url"
where menu-url is the URL or filename of the first page to show.
Currently videos cannot be displayed in this preview mode.
+Press T to go to the "top" (main) menu or Q to quit.
+
Processing
To create a DVD filesystem, run "videolink menu-url output-dir" where
By default, VideoLink now calls ffmpeg to generate MPEG-2 streams for
menus. If you want it to use mjpegtools as it previously did, you
-must add the option "--encoder mjpegtools". If you use mjpegtools
-1.6.2 or earlier you must instead use "--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.
+must add the option "--encoder mjpegtools".
If this is successful you can then use mkisofs to create a DVD image
from the output directory. Alternately you can write this directory
equal to 10% of the frame dimension on each side of the body; this
doesn't apply to the background.
-Prior to version 1.8, Mozilla may signal that a page is completely
-loaded before any background images are loaded and displayed. This
-can result in VideoLink converting the page without the background
-images. If VideoLink is built with an older version of Mozilla you
-can work around this by using absolutely-positioned "inline" images,
-since Mozilla will always wait for these to load.
-
DVD players do not have "back" buttons, so you should generally
provide links to "higher" menu pages. However, they do have a button
for returning to the top menu.
Bugs
----
-Under Mozilla 1.7, VideoLink sets the assumed screen resolution to
-40 dpi, which I reckon to be the average resolution of a standard
-definition TV display. This should mean that text with a font size
-expressed in millimetres or points will appear around the specified
-size. Unfortunately this setting has a different effect under
-Mozilla/XULRunner 1.8:
-
-Mozilla Assumed Requested Actual size
-version resolution size (pixels) (inches)
- (dpi)
-
- 1.7 default:96 20 px 20 0.5
- 1.7 default:96 36 pt 48 1.2
- 1.7 40 20 px 20 0.5
- 1.7 40 36 pt 20 0.5
- 1.8 default:96 20 px 20 0.5
- 1.8 default:96 36 pt 48 1.2
- 1.8 40 20 px 48 1.2
- 1.8 40 36 pt 48 1.2
-
-From version 0.10, until I have a proper solution, VideoLink will not
-set the assumed screen resolution under Mozilla 1.8. I must advise
-against using font sizes in millimetres or points since they will vary
-between browser versions.
+VideoLink should set the assumed screen resolution to 40 dpi, which I
+reckon to be the average resolution of a standard definition TV
+display. This would mean that text with a font size expressed in
+millimetres or points will appear around the specified size.
+Earlier versions of VideoLink did this when built to use Mozilla 1.7.
+Unfortunately the resolution setting in Mozilla 1.8 actually affects
+measurements in pixels and not measurements in millimetres or points!
+The assumed screen resolution is always 96 dpi.
+
+Please specify measurements such as font sizes in pixels because
+measurements in millimetres or points are liable to change if and when
+I can override the assumed screen resolution again.
Author and copyright
--------------------
VideoLink was written by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.
-Copyright 2005-2006 Ben Hutchings.
+Copyright 2005-2008 Ben Hutchings.
This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Copyright 1991-1998 Thomas G. Lane. (This applies to the file jquant2.c.)
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