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diff --git a/README b/README
index 47125949b4a7a5c13435c6e8d60670dd80656aed..90b82fc6befe34643fe465a955258f3d3e0a8b65 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,20 +30,38 @@ Usage
 -----
 
 Design your DVD menus as a series of HTML pages linking to each other
 -----
 
 Design your DVD menus as a series of HTML pages linking to each other

-and to MPEG-1/2 videos that are suitable for use on a DVD.  Currently
-the videos must be local files with filenames ending in ".vob", but no
-such restrictions apply to the HTML pages.  You must be careful not to
-link to pages that you do not want to appear on the disc, such as
-normal web sites.  Also note the limitations listed below.
+and to MPEG-1/2 videos that are suitable for use on a DVD.  You must
+be careful not to link to pages that you do not want to appear on the
+disc, such as normal web sites.  Also note the limitations listed
+below.
+
+Linking to video
+
+You can link directly to local MPEG video files whose names end in
+".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 a text file whose name ends in ".voblist" and
+containg <vob> elements as described in the dvdauthor manual page, and
+link to that.  Note that these list files are currently included
+directly in the control file that WebDVD passes to dvdauthor, which
+means that file names in them will be resolved relative to the current
+directory rather than the directory containing the list file.  This is
+probably a bug.
+
+Video standards

 
 By default, webdvd generates PAL/SECAM video.  If you wish to produce
 NTSC DVDs you can override this by adding the option "--video-std ntsc"
 to the following commands.
 
 
 By default, webdvd generates PAL/SECAM video.  If you wish to produce
 NTSC DVDs you can override this by adding the option "--video-std ntsc"
 to the following commands.
 

+Preview
+

 To get a rough preview of the menus, run "webdvd --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.
 
 To get a rough preview of the menus, run "webdvd --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.
 

+Processing
+

 To create a DVD filesystem, run "webdvd menu-url output-dir" where
 menu-url is the URL or filename of the top menu page and output-dir is
 the directory in which to create the filesystem (which should be
 To create a DVD filesystem, run "webdvd menu-url output-dir" where
 menu-url is the URL or filename of the top menu page and output-dir is
 the directory in which to create the filesystem (which should be


@@ -55,6 +73,14 @@ from the output directory.  Alternately you can write this directory
 directly to a writable DVD with growisofs or with mkisofs piped to a
 suitable version of cdrecord.
 
 directly to a writable DVD with growisofs or with mkisofs piped to a
 suitable version of cdrecord.
 

+Example
+-------
+
+A live example set of menus can currently be found at
+<http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/software/debconf5-dvd/menus/main.html>.
+Note that this has large background images that will take some time to
+load.
+

 Limitations
 -----------
 
 Limitations
 -----------
 


@@ -62,8 +88,15 @@ Each page must fit within the frame - DVD players do not support
 scrolling menus and WebDVD currently is not able to split them into
 multiple menus.  Note also that the video frame is somewhat larger
 than the visible area of a normal TV.  For this reason WebDVD applies
 scrolling menus and WebDVD currently is not able to split them into
 multiple menus.  Note also that the video frame is somewhat larger
 than the visible area of a normal TV.  For this reason WebDVD applies

-a stylesheet to all pages that adds 50-60 pixels of padding on all
-sides of the body.
+a stylesheet to all pages that adds 60 pixels of padding on all sides
+of the body.
+
+Prior to Mozilla version 1.8, which I have not yet tested, Mozilla may
+signal that a page is completely loaded before any background images
+are loaded and displayed.  This results in snapshots that do not
+include background images.  You can work around this by using
+absolutely-positioned "inline" images, or attempt to build WebDVD
+against Mozilla 1.8.

 
 DVD players do not have "back" buttons, so you should generally
 provide links to "higher" menu pages.  However, they do have a button
 
 DVD players do not have "back" buttons, so you should generally
 provide links to "higher" menu pages.  However, they do have a button


@@ -86,7 +119,11 @@ The DVD specification also limits the overlays that are used for
 highlighting of buttons to using no more than 4 colours.  WebDVD will
 reduce link highlighting to 1 transparent and 3 opaque colours using
 Floyd-Steinberg dithering, which is certainly good enough for
 highlighting of buttons to using no more than 4 colours.  WebDVD will
 reduce link highlighting to 1 transparent and 3 opaque colours using
 Floyd-Steinberg dithering, which is certainly good enough for

-anti-alised text but may not be so good for complex highlighting.
+anti-aliased text but may not be so good for complex highlighting.
+
+There is a limit of 99 "titlesets" (groups of video sequences) on a
+DVD.  Currently WebDVD does not attempt to group video sequences
+together, so there is a limit of 99 video sequences altogether.

 
 Author and copyright
 --------------------
 
 Author and copyright
 --------------------

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 120485d741e60bf4a9747cb8e612687ba2407323..27663b8d1c7476f7928499e719487c5c1775c62d 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-Add keyboard command for "top menu" in preview mode.
+Provide a means to specify video aspect and menu & audio language.
+Search whole of history rather than just previous page when deciding whether a link goes back or forward.

 Set Mozilla's idea of the pixel aspect ratio to match video pixels. (For extra credit, scale preview mode to correct for the differing aspect ratio.)
 Set Mozilla's idea of the pixel aspect ratio to match video pixels. (For extra credit, scale preview mode to correct for the differing aspect ratio.)

+Add keyboard command for "top menu" in preview mode.

 Add support for videos in preview mode.
 Add support for videos in preview mode.

-Disable scrollbars (not sure how how to do this).
+Support more than 99 videos by grouping them into titlesets.
+Avoid exceeding the maximum 128 instructions per PGC.
+Allow explicit ordering of videos.

 May need to override default menu navigation actions because dvdauthor seems to cause rather undesirable behaviour when buttons are not arranged in a grid.
 May need to override default menu navigation actions because dvdauthor seems to cause rather undesirable behaviour when buttons are not arranged in a grid.

-Search whole of history rather than just previous page when deciding whether a link goes back or forward.

 For any page with no links, add a "back" link (this raises the issue of localisation, of course).
 If a page is too large, split it and add "next" and "previous" links (seems very difficult).
 For any page with no links, add a "back" link (this raises the issue of localisation, of course).
 If a page is too large, split it and add "next" and "previous" links (seems very difficult).

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b516010a037007ab570403112460a2708785eacc..35024c5aafdc927973de2e416cf7b6914f46d1ce 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+webdvd (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Disabled scrollbars
+  * Added early check for missing video files
+  * Added support for linking to custom VOB lists
+  * Changed X server spawning to avoid displays allocated by ssh
+
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk>  Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:07:33 +0000
+

 webdvd (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Implemented preview mode
 webdvd (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Implemented preview mode

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 921e18e9e00d56fe956539236913b284d74bcddc..4bd2e133b98900b1fda48eaae4905136b655d701 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ Description: Converts HTML pages into DVD menus.
  rendering them in Mozilla and reproducing their link structure.  This
  allows you to design DVDs using familiar HTML editing tools or your
  favourite text editor.
  rendering them in Mozilla and reproducing their link structure.  This
  allows you to design DVDs using familiar HTML editing tools or your
  favourite text editor.

+ .
+ Homepage: http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/software/webdvd/