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@@ -18,14 +18,20 @@ VideoLink depends on the following software:
 - dvdauthor
 - expat 1.x
 - Gtkmm 2.4 or later
-- ffmpeg or mjpegtools
-- Mozilla 1.8 or later, or XULRunner
-- netpbm
+- 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.
@@ -42,10 +48,10 @@ below.
 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
 
@@ -98,8 +104,6 @@ interlaced;           |                              | or 625/50   |
 
 The default is to use "PAL" parameters.
 
-Currently 
-
 Preview
 
 To get a rough preview of the menus, run "videolink --preview menu-url"
@@ -118,10 +122,7 @@ to the other pages and to the video files.
 
 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
@@ -149,13 +150,6 @@ reason VideoLink applies a stylesheet to all pages that adds padding
 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.
@@ -210,7 +204,7 @@ 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.)