dvdwizard v0.5.1
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dvdwizard is a wrapper-script which incorporates a fully automated creation of a DVD-structure with Chapters and menus from one or more mpeg-streams. 
This is done by several "sub-scripts" and various freely available tools. 
Needless to say, that dvdwizard is distributed under the GPL as well.

Here's the idea:
Just issue
#> dvdwizard my_movie.mpg
and go grab yourself a beer, have lunch oder whatever you like to do for about half an hour (depending on your machine's speed - for me it's 30 minutes on an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 512 MB). 
Come back, issue
#> xine dvd://`pwd`/dvd/
and watch your DVD or burn it and take it to your stand-alone DVD.

You'll need the programs and tools listed in TOOLS to make this work. Just install the neccessary RPMs oder compile them from source. 
dvdwizard checks each tool at runtime and won't get far if some are missing.

The mentioned version numbers are the ones running on my box, so these should be working. I don't know about any other versions, so you'll have to try.

A lot of things have changed since the initial version. 
Since the 0.4.x generation, it was possible to author multiple titlesets at once, PAL or NTSC is supported. 
If the movie has more than one audio stream, an audio selection menu will be shown, languages of audio tracks are now freely customizable. 
Also, a configuration file has been introduced.

The 0.5-version almost completely reworked menu layouts, offered better support for ImageMagick > 6.0 (indeed >6.0 is neccessary now) and introduced Subtitle menus and the possibility to display Info-Panels with short descriptions of the movies.
The use of a config file is now mandatory.

See the complete list of changes in the CHANGELOG file.


Things to come may be found in the TODO file.


Installation:
=============

Pre-Installation thoughts:
---------------------------
If you have an older version of dvdwizard running (prior to 0.5), you should backup and delete the existing scripts before installing the new ones. Be sure to avoid any kind of mixture between old and new versions since they are by no means compatible. Too much has changed, sorry.


A. Installation with the script install.sh
-------------------------------------------
dvdwizard has an install script in it's tarball, that will cover the neccessary steps of the installation for you. If needed, please adjust the variables BINDIR and CONFDIR at the beginning of the script. Then just run:

#> sh ./install.sh

The install script will check, whether you already have an existing dvdwizard.conf in your ~/.dvdwizard directory. If so, it will ask permission to override the existing file and will also create a backup of your old config. I know, the installation procedure is kind of crude, but I'd rather put my efforts into the core scripts of dvdwizard than to write sophisticated installation procedures. But You may contribute such, if you like. ;-)


B. Manuall Installation
-----------------------
If you decide to take the manual way, the following files from the tarball must be copied to a directory in your path:
- dvdwizard		Main-Script
- mk_vmgm		Create DVD main menu
- mk_vtsm		Creates Chapter-Selection-Menus
- mk_vtsm_lang		Creates Language-Selection-Menu for Multi-Audio and/or Multi-Subtitle-Movies
- mk_vtsm_info		Creates Info-Panels from Text files to display short descriptions of the movies
- dvdwizardrc		variouse subroutines, called from most other scripts
- chaptercheck		Check and transform Chapter-Timecodes or intervals
- dvdcpics		Create Chapter-Screenshots for chapter selection menus
- dvdtguess		Guess movie title from filename
- mpgprobe		Get Video and Audio characteristics from MPEG-Stream
- txt2png		Convert Textfile to a PNG (used for creating Info panels)

Make sure, dvdwizardrc resides in the same directory as the other scripts or dvdwizard will fail. And don't forget to set the executable bit for these scripts. They are not marked as executable in the tarball!

As a last step, copy the file dvdwizard.conf.sample as dvdwizard.conf either into a directory /etc/dvdwizard (for system-wide installation) or into ~/.dvdwizard (for per-user installation). You may as well copy it somehwere else, but then you'll always need to specify the location on the command line.


Post-Installation
-----------------
After successfully installing dvdwizard, feel free to load the config-file into your favourite editor and change it as needed. The sample file is well documented.



Handling:
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dvdwizard takes the MPEG-streams specified on the command line and create a DVD structure in a directory. This directory can be burned on a DVD and should run on a stand-alone DVD-player. The following steps will be done to accomplish this task:

1. Create Chapter-Screenshots for the Chapter-Selection Menu
   To create a nice and graphical Chapter-Selection menu (see 3. below), a frame from the beginning of every chapter is captured, which will be converted to a thumbnail and shown as a button for the menu.
   To produce this screenshots, dvdwizard creates a temporary DVD-structure, which will not yet have any menus but will have chapters. 
   The definition of the chapter-timecodes may either generated by dvdwizard (Default: a chapter every 5 minutes) or specified manually on the commandline (dvdwizard -c <interval|string|file>).
   Here are the three possibilities:

   a. Specify a fix interval in seconds(e.g. dvdwizard -c 600 - a chapter every 10 minutes)

   b. Specify a string with the desired timecodes in the same format, dvdauthor expects them:
      [h:][mm:]ss[.frac], where <frac> are ms, to make frame accurate specifications. This frac must be a multiple of 40 (1 Frame = 40 ms for PAL), e.g. dvdwizard -c 39.400,5:12.640,1:10:42.080 starts a chapter at 39 seconds and 10 frames, 5 minutes, 12 seconds and 16 frames and the last at 1 hour, 10 minutes, 42 seconds and 2 frames.
      dvdauthor may not be frame accurate, if the specified frame is not an I-Frame. In this case, dvdauthor puts       the chapter boundary on the most recent I-frame before the specified timecode.

   c. Specify a text file containing the timecodes as described unter b. this way, you may note down your chapter breakpoints in a file and pass it to dvdwizard.

   Chapter specification will be syntax-checked, because dvdauthor simply ignores misfigured timecodes and you end up with less chapters than specified. Will be noticed too late in most cases. :-|

   The temporary DVD-structure, which will be build with these chapters, is used for speeding up the process.    With this DVD, transcode can extract the frames in DVD-chapter-mode, which is much faster than seeking through    the whole mpeg-stream for the desired frames. 
   On my box (Athlon 1.4 GHz), transcode seeks with about 35 to 40 fps. With this rate, it would take approx. 90 minutes to get through a 2 hour movie. 
   In chapter-mode, transcode doesn't need more than 5 minutes for the same task, so the 10 minutes to create the DVD structure are a good investment.
   To extract the best possible screenshot from the beginning of each chapter, 10 frames out of the first 200 frames of the chapter als transcoded to jpegs. The frame with the largest filesize is selected as the chapter-screenshot.
   This is done to avoid having black screenshots if a chapter starts with a fade-in. the larger the jpeg is, the more different colors and forms must be in the frame. Works perfect in my opinion.

2. Create the DVD-Main-Menu (VMGM, Title-Menu)
   This menu normally shows the Titel of the DVD and lets you choose some options like running the movie from start or go to the movies selection menus.
   The vmgm created by dvdwizard will be just like this, but since dvdwizard-0.5 it holds one menu page for every titleset on the DVD. 
   On each page, there will be at least to options: start the movie from the beginning or go to the chapter selections menu. More options may be available, if the movie has more menus to choose from (e.g. Audio, Subtitle, Info).
   dvdwizard creates a background-Picture for the menu internally, however there is a possibility customize the looks via config file and command line options.
   Additionally, you may specify the title of the movie with (dvdwizard -T <string>) or let dvdwizard guess the title from the filename of the first mpeg-file
   However, the result of this title-guessing may be poor depending on the name of your files. dvdwizard replaces all underscores to whitespace and removes every uppercase words at the beginning and all fully numeric words at the end of the filename.
   This is due to the way, I use dvdwizard to operate the DVB-streams of my digital Satellite Set-Top-Box. The streamed files have names like TV_STATION_This_is_the_movie_title_20030321_201502.mpg, so I get rid of the TV-station name at the beginning and the timestamps at the end.

3. Create Titleset-menus (VTSM, root, ptt, audio, subtitle)
   Just as the vmgm menu, also vtsm menus will be created. on the bottom of the menu, you'll find text buttons
   for navigating within the menus. If multiple pages are used for one menu, you may navigate through the pages by pressing the left and right keys on your remote control.
   The rest of the menu is used for the chapter thumbnails, with which one can directly jump to a desired chapter.
   In the same manner, audio and subtitle selection menus will be produced, if the input mpeg stream has more than one audio and/or subtitle tracks.

4. Create xml-file for dvdauthor
   During the described steps before, the commands for dvdauthor are written into an xml-file "on-the-fly", which will be used for authoring the final DVD structure. 
   As default, this file is named dvdwizard.xml but you may specify a different name on the command-line (dvdwizard -x <file>).

5. Create final DVD-structure
   As the last step, the final DVD structure is authored with all menus, chapters and things into a subdirectory called ./dvd, if not specified otherwise on the command-line (dvdwizard -o <dir>).

After finishing these steps, the DVD can be played directly from that directory, for instance with xine. Just issue

#> xine dvd://"`pwd`"/dvd/

in the directory you called dvdwizard in and check, if everything went well. If you're satisfied with the result, you can burn this directory oonto DVD.


Created objects:
================
After successfully running dvdwizard, you'll find the following objects in your working directory (as long as no other target directories or filenames have been specified in the config file or command line):

Directories:
./dvd			Created DVD-strukture
./vmgm			holds the main menu pages
./vtsm			holds the titleset menus
./cpics			Created Chapter-Screenshots (each titleset has it's own subdirectory VTSx)

Files:
dvdwizard.cmd		All called scripts from  dvdwizard including all parameters
dvdwizard.log		Logfile with all programm output
dvdwizard.xml		XML-definition for dvdauthor


Restrictions:
=============
dvdwizard tries in general not to add further restrictions beyond the DVD specifications, but there are a few limitations, which are caused by dvdwizard and have nothing to do with the functionallity of e.g. dvdauthor or the DVD specs. 
These are the points:

- max. 9 titlesets per DVD (according to DVD-specs up to 99 titlesets possible)
- only 1 title within a titleset (according to DVD-specs up to 99 titles per titleset)
- no multi-angle DVDs

All these restrictions are in place due to the graphical presentation and/or the missing Know-How or interests of the author. There are no plans to get rid of these limitations in future releases.


The "Sub-Scripts":
==================
All scripts incorporated in dvdwizard may also be used independent from each other and directly by the user. This
way, there are more options to choose from than dvdwizard uses.
Here's a short description of the scripts:

dvdwizard:
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Usage: dvdwizard [options] mpeg-file(s)

miscellaneous options:
----------------------
-h | --help   		print this lot out
-v | --version		print version and exit

general processing:
-------------------
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-o | --output		Path where the final DVD will be stored [\$BASEDIR/dvd]
-x | --xml		Print dvdauthor XML-specs into this file
			[\$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.xml]
-l | --logfile		Write Log-Messages to this file [\$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.log]
-y | --yes		Allow all target directories to be overwritten
--restart		Do not start from beginning but from step x
			x may be dvdcpics, mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm, author
--xmlonly		Do not author final DVD, only create menus and xml
                        and remove temp. DVD structure.
--xmlkeep               Like --xmlonly, but keep temp. DVD structure

Note: \$BASEDIR defaults to the current directory if not stated otherwise in the
config file (either default ~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf or specified with the -C
option)

DVD-specific options:
---------------------
-T  | --vmgm <string>	Titlestring for the whole DVD [-t]
                	if not specified, Titlestring from the first Title on the
                	DVD will be used
-B  | --vmgmbg		default backgound picture if -b is not set for specific titleset
-N  | --tvnorm		TV-Norm to use <PAL|NTSC> [PAL]
-V  | --tvsize		Visible Area on TV-Screen <XxY> [635x535]
-WS             	Widescreen-Option (nopanscan or noletterbox) for whole DVD
			may be overwritten by -ws for a specific titleset
-P  | --palette  	Name of palette File, needed i. E. for subpictures
-A  | --Audio		language for audiotracks. <lang1,lang2,...,langn> [de,en]
			languages are applied to audiotracks in order they appear in the
			mpeg stream.
			applies to all titlesets on the DVD, may be overwritten by -a
			for a specific titleset
-M  | --menu		Language to use in menu items [en]
			Textelements are defined in config file
-I  | --intro		MPEG-File to be played when inserting the DVD in the player
-L  | --loop		Playback mode of the DVD. Possible values:
			 0 - return to vmgm menu after each title
			-1 - display vmgm menu before the first and after 
			     the last title
			-2 - display vmgm menu only before first title and 
			     loop through all titles afterwards
			>0 - suppress vmgm menu and loop all titles 
			     endlessly, starting from specified title
-MS | --vmgmsound	Soundfile to be used as background sound for all
			menus (may be overwritten for specific titlesets with -ms|--vtsmsound)
			If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format,
			ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary


Title-specific options:
-----------------------
-t | --vts		Create a new titleset on the DVD with the subsequent options and
			mpeg-files.
			-t must be followed by a filename or a string or the word "auto"
			"auto" determines title-string from filename of first mpeg-file,
			if -t is followed by an existing filename, that file is considered
			to be the first mpeg in this titleset, else the string is used as
			movie title for this titleset
-c | --chapters		Chapter-Specification <0|file|timecodes|interval> [300]
			0 means no chaptering except for different mpeg-files
-b | --vtsmbg		Background-Picture for all menus concerning this titleset
-ws             	Widescreen-Option (nopanscan or noletterbox) for this titleset
-a | --audio		see -A, but only applies to this titleset
-s | --subpic   	pass subpicture information to dvdauthor.
                	This is a string like "en" for english, "de" for German etc.
                	More Languages by Comma Separation, i.e. "-s de,en".
                	Each language may be followed by an optional "+hi" to indicate
                	a subpicture track for hearing impaired, i.e. "-s de,de+hi"
-i | --info <file>  	points to a text file containing description and the like
			for the movie			
-ms | --vtsmsound	see -MS, but only applies to this titleset

Note: Every new "-t" creates a new titleset on the DVD. Subsequent options -c,
-b and -a and mpeg-file(s) apply only to that titleset. To create a DVD with 2
titlesets, use for example:
	dvdwizard -t auto -c 300 title1.mpg -t auto -b background.ppm title2.mpg

dvdwizard is the wrapper script, which calls all subsequent scripts for fully automated processing

Example:		dvdwizard -c chapters.txt -B oe_cover.png Oceans_Eleven.mpg

	Creates a DVD-structure from MPEG-Stream Oceans_Eleven.mpg into the default Subdirectory ./dvd of the acutal
   working directory and creates the chapters according to the timecodes found in the file chapters.txt.
   The file oe_cover.png is used as background picture for the vmgm menu, the title for the VMGM will be
   "Oceans Eleven"


mk_vmgm:
--------
Usage: mk_vmgm [options]
miscellaneous options:
----------------------
-h | --help		print this lot out

general processing:
-------------------
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-o | --output		Path where the final DVD will be stored [\$BASEDIR/dvd]
-x | --xml		Print dvdauthor XML-specs into this file
			[$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.xml]

Note: \$BASEDIR defaults to the current directory if not stated otherwise in the
config file (either default ~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf or specified with the -C
option)

DVD-specific options:
---------------------
-T  | --vmgm		Title of the DVD to display on menu
			If not specified, no title will be printed on VMGM menu
-B  | --vmgmbg		default backgound picture if -b is not set for specific titleset
-N  | --tvnorm		Choose from PAL (25fps, 720x576) or NTSC (29.97 fps, 720x480)
			[PAL]
-V  | --tvsize		Visible area of frame on TV set. [635x535]
-M  | --menu		Language to use in menu items [en]
			Textelements are defined in config file
-I  | --intro		MPEG-File to be played when inserting the DVD in the player
-L  | --loop		Playback mode of the DVD. Possible values:
			 0 - return to vmgm menu after each title
			-1 - display vmgm menu before the first and after 
			     the last title
			-2 - display vmgm menu only before first title and 
			     loop through all titles afterwards
			>0 - suppress vmgm menu and loop all titles 
			     endlessly, starting from specified title
-MS | --vmgmsound	Soundfile to be used as background sound for all
			menus (may be overwritten for specific titlesets with -ms|--vtsmsound)
			If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format,
			ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary

Title-specific options:
-----------------------
-t  | --vts		Titlestring for titleset. repeat for each titleset
			Will be ignored for single-titleset DVDs, if -T is given
-b  | --vtsmbg		Image to use as thumbnail for the vtsm in a Multi-Titleset-DVD
-ms | --vtsmsound	see -MS, but only applies to this titleset
--hasaudio		Title has multiple audio tracks. A button to jump to the audio
			selection menu will be created
--hassubtitle		Title has at least one Subtitle-Stream which may be activated
			in a subsequent subtitle-menu
--hasinfo		Title has EPG-Informations available. A button to jump to the
			info panel will be created

Note: Every new "-t" marks a new titleset on the DVD. Subsequent options
-b, --hasaudio, --hassubtitle and --hasinfo apply only to that titleset.

Creates the vmgm menu for the DVD


chaptercheck:
-------------
Usage: chaptercheck <chapterspec>

currently supported options:
----------------------------
chapterspec     Definition of Chapters as <file>|<timecodes>|interval|0 [none]
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-N | --tvnorm   Choose tv-norm from PAL or NTSC [PAL]
-h | --help     print this lot out
-L | --maxlen		Length of mpeg file

Checks specified timecodes for errors and creates the timecodes, if only an interval was specified.
If the timecodes are correct, the list is written to /dev/stdout.


dvdcpics:
---------
Usage: dvdcpics -i <dvd-image> -o <output-directory> [options]

currently supported options:
----------------------------
-C | --config-file      filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
                        [~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-i | --input            Path where the DVD can be found
-t | --vts              Titleset on the DVD to process [1]
-o | --output           Path where the Pictures will be stored
-b | --batch            no user interaction - image will be choosen automagically
                        Interactive mode is the default (User chooses picture)
-f | --fsize            Frame-Size (eg 720x576) for Screenshots. If not specified,
                        defaults to attributes of the video stream
-h | --help             print this lot out

Creates the chapters-screenshots for the vtsm menu. if parm -b is not specified, dvdcpics will display the 10 captured
frames from the beginning of each chapters letting the user manually specify, which one to take as chapter thumbnail.
For this, the script needs a connection to the XServer, because it uses "display vid:*.jpg" from ImageMagick to
put the frames on the screen.


mk_vtsm:
--------
Usage: mk_vtsm [options] image-files

currently supported options:
----------------------------
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-o | --output-dir	Define Output-Directory where ready-made menu-mpegs should
			be written to [.]
-x | --xml-file		Define filename for xml-definition
			[<output-dir>/dvdauthor.menu.xml]
-b | --vtsmbg		Image to use as background for chapter thumbnails.
			If not specified, mk_vtsm will create one from scratch
-r | --thumbaspectratio	Define the desired aspect ratio for the thumbnails [16:9]
-c | --chaptersperrow	Define how many chapter thumbnails will fit in a row [3]
-N | --tvnorm		TV-Norm to use <PAL|NTSC> [PAL]
-V | --tvsize		Visible area of frame on TV set. At least my tv does not
			show full "$normSize", but maybe yours can. [635x535]
-t | --vts		Titleset on the DVD where the menus should belong to [1]
-M | --menu		Language to use in menu items [en]
			Textelements are defined in config file
-ms | --vtsmsound	Soundfile to be used as background sound for the
			menus. If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format,
			ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary
--hasaudio		Title has multiple audio tracks. A button to jump to the audio
			selection menu will be created
--hassubtitle		Title has at least one Subtitle-Stream which may be activated
			in a subsequent subtitle-menu
--hasinfo		Title has EPG-Informations available. A button to jump to the
			info panel will be created
-h | --help		print this lot out

Creates the vtsm menu. Each Chapter may be started directly by clicking a thumbnail-button.


mk_vtsm_lang:
--------------
Usage:  mk_vtsm_lang --audio [options] track_list
	mk_vtsm_lang --subtitle [options] track_list
	mk_vtsm_lang -h|--help

currently supported options:
----------------------------
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-o | --output-dir	Define Output-Directory where ready-made menu-mpegs should
			be written to [.]
-x | --xml-file		Define filename for xml-definition
			[<output-dir>/dvdwizard.xml]
-b | --vtsmbg		Image to use as background for menu options.
-N | --tvnorm		TV-Norm to use <PAL|NTSC> [PAL]
-V | --tvsize		Visible area of frame on TV set. At least my tv does not
			show full "$normSize", but maybe yours can. [635x535]
-t | --vts		Titleset on the DVD where the menus should belong to [1]
-M | --menu		Language to use in menu items [en]
			Textelements are defined in config file
-ms | --vtsmsound	Soundfile to be used as background sound for the
			menus. If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format,
			ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary
--hasaudio		Title has multiple audio tracks. A button to jump to the audio
			selection menu will be created; meaningless if --audio is specified
--hassubtitle		Title has at least one Subtitle-Stream which may be activated
			in a subsequent subtitle-menu; meaningless if --subtitle is specified
--hasinfo		Title has EPG-Informations available. A button to jump to the
			info panel will be created
-h | --help		print this lot out

track_list:
	one entry for each audio or subtitle track, comma separated
	for audio: <lang>+<fmt>[[=s<0-31>],<lang>+<fmt>...]
		<lang>=2-Letter language code
		<fmt>=Audio format (MP2, AC3, DTS)
		<0-31>=binding to special forced subtitle track (not yet implemented!)
		e.g. de+ac3,en+mp2=s5
	for subtitle: <lang>[[+hi],<lang>...]
		<lang>=2-Letter language code
		hi=Subtitle is for hearing impaired, will be noted on the menu as such
		e.g. en,fr,de,de+hi

Creates the language selection menus (Audio or Subtitle) within a titleset


mk_vtsm_info:
--------------
Usage: mk_vtsm_info [options] text-file

currently supported options:
----------------------------
-C | --config-file	filename of dvdwizard-configuration file
			[~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf]
-o | --output-dir	Define Output-Directory where ready-made menu-mpegs should
			be written to [.]
-x | --xml-file		Define filename for xml-definition
			[<output-dir>/dvdauthor.menu.xml]
-b | --vtsmbg		Image to use as background for chapter thumbnails.
			If not specified, mk_vtsm will create one from scratch
-N | --tvnorm		TV-Norm to use <PAL|NTSC> [PAL]
-V | --tvsize		Visible area of frame on TV set. At least my tv does not
			show full "$normSize", but maybe yours can. [635x535]
-t | --vts		Titleset on the DVD where the menus should belong to [1]
-M | --menu		Language to use in menu items [en]
			Textelements are defined in config file
-ms | --vtsmsound	Soundfile to be used as background sound for the
			menus. If empty, a silent audio track will be produced. Can be any format,
			ffmpeg recognizes and will be converted to ac3, if neccessary
--hasaudio		Title has multiple audio tracks. A button to jump to the audio
			selection menu will be created
--hassubtitle		Title has at least one Subtitle-Stream which may be activated
			in a subsequent subtitle-menu
-h | --help		print this lot out

Creates an Info panel from a given text file to display short descriptions


dvdtguess:
----------
Usage: dvdtguess filename
Guessed Titlestring is returned via /dev/stdout

This script tries to guess the movie title from its filename. It is deeply correlated to the way,
files are named for recordings within udrec_suite so results for other files may be poor.


mpgprobe:
---------
Usage: mpgprobe mpeg-file

Outputs Video and Audio specs of the mpeg file to stdout, example:

Video:704x576 16:9 25.000		# Frame-Resolution, aspect ratio, frames per second
Audio:ac3 mp2 mp2				# Formats of contained audio tracks


txt2png:
--------
Usage: txt2png [options] text-file

currently supported options:
----------------------------
-o | --output	Basename of Output files. Will be appended by .png, if only
			 	one png file is created, else appended by <n>.png, where <n>
			 	is a two digit number starting with '01'.
			 	If omitted, defaults to "txt2png_out"
-s | --size		Defines the size of the output png(s) in pixels, e.g. -s 300x400.
				If ommited, defaults to "500x500".
-f | --fontsize Defines the size of the font to be used (in Points)
				Default: 16 Point
-c | --color 	Font-Color to be used, valid Image-Magick Color-Code
			    (e.g. white, black, rgb(255,128,127)), Default: black
-h | --help		print this lot out

Create a PNG-file from a text input file.


Feedback:
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I've tried, to test the whole package as good as possible. On my box (SuSE 9.3 through openSuSE 10.2, nothing special), it runs smoothly but I can't guaranty, that it runs the same on your machine. 
I'm sure, there are some bugs in the coding. I consider this software as pre-alpha, so use it at your own risk.
I designed the process according to my needs when recording DVB-streams from digital TV broadcasts. Those streams are written into a large mpeg file, which I then use as input to dvdwizard. 
If you have other "default procedures" when creating a DVD with dvdauthor, this tools may or may not help you.

Every kind of constructive feedback is highly appretiated. Just mail me at "dvdwizard at wershofen.net".

Enjoy!

