DESCRIPTION

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.

The configuration file dvdwizard.conf can be found as global file at /etc/dvdwizard.conf. For each user there can be found a configurable copy of the global file in ~/.config/dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf.

SYNTAX

Some directories:

BASEDIR="$(pwd)"

All persistent files will reside here.

TMPDIR="$BASEDIR"

Put temporary files here.

DESTDIR="$BASEDIR/dvd"

Where your final DVD structure will be.

Some filenames:

XMLFILE="$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.xml"

dvdauthor XML-commands.

LOGFILE="$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.log"

Logfile.

CMDFILE="$BASEDIR/dvdwizard.cmd"

Commands used during this dvdwizard run.

Optional Input files:

INTROMPG=""

MPEG-File to be played as intro movie

MENUSOUND=""

Soundfile for menus (if empty, a silent track will be produced).

Some processing defaults:

NICE="0"

Nice-Level of tools called within dvdwizard

XMLONLY=0

1 = build only menus and xml file, 0 - build DVD as well.

NOTITLE=0

1 = don't print Titlestring on VMGM menu, 0 = print it.

TVNORM="PAL"

PAL or NTSC.

TVSIZE="660x530"

Size of region visible on the TV screen.

CHAPTERSPEC=300

Chapter interval.

TIMEOUT=inf

automatically start a title after the vmgm menu has been displayed for $TIMEOUT seconds without having pressed a button.

PAUSE=2

Pausing after end of title.

LOOP=0

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 all titles endlessly,

num

num is a value between 1 and 9. Suppress vmgm menu and loop all titles endlessly, starting from specified title.

Colors

See "convert -list color" for available color names. Can also be specfied as "rgb[a](r,g,b[,a])" or "#RRGGBB[AA]"

TITLECOLOR="white"

Color used for titlestring

HEADCOLOR="white"

Color used for menu headers

TEXTCOLOR="white"

Color used for larger texts (e.g. About and Info panel)

NORMCOLOR="white"

Color of normal text

HICOLOR="orange"

Color of highlighted buttons and text

SELCOLOR="green"

Color of selected buttons

ACTCOLOR="lime"

Color of actual menu entry

Font faces & sizes

Change size with caution, results of large changes may look ugly. See "convert -list font" for available font faces on your system.Empty String means ImageMagick default font. Usually imagemagick take an italic fontstyle (DE: kursiv). Pay attention for available fonts on your system!

TFONTTYPE=""

Font Face of Titlestring on VMGM-Menu

TFONTSIZE=46

Fontsize of Titlestring on VMGM-Menu

HFONTTYPE=""

Font Face of Menu Headers

HFONTSIZE=24

Fontsize of Menu Headers

MFONTTYPE=""

Font Face of Menu Entries

MFONTSIZE=20

Fontsize of Menu Entries

BFONTTYPE=""

Font Face of Button Entries

BFONTSIZE=20

Fontsize of Button Entries

OFONTTYPE1=""

Font Face for small vertical overlay text

OFONTSIZE1=18

Fontsize for small vertical overlay text

OFONTTYPE2=""

ont Face for big vertical overlay text

OFONTSIZE2=40

Fontsize for big vertical overlay text

Layout of Menus

VTSMBG=""

Background image to use for VTSM menu (blank: use builtin)

VTSTITLE="auto"

Determine Titles from MPEG-Filename

CHAPTERSPERROW=4

Nomber of thumbnails per row in chapter selection menus

THUMBRATIO="4:3"

Aspect ratio of thumbnails (only used if not specified when calling mk_vtsm)

THUMBBORDER=2

Width of border around chapter buttons (in Pixel)

THUMBSPACE=3

Width of spacing around chapter buttons (in Pixel). Note: The actual space between buttons will be twice the value.

MENU_CANVAS="gradient:white-black"

Background texture for menu pictures

Examples:

"gradient:white-black" "plasma:blue-yellow -colorspace gray" "/path/to/nice_picture"

DUMMY_CANVAS="xc:none"

Canvas for dummy pictures, if no bg picture specified

Examples:

"xc:none" "plasma:"

Audio Track languages

Add more languages as desired into the config file.

DVDAUDIO="de,en"

Default languages.

Multilanguage Menus

MENU="EN"

Language for all menus.

AUTHOR

DVDwizard was written by Wolfgang Wershofen <itconsult at wershofen.de>. Since 2009 DVDwizard will be developed by Joo Martin <joomart2009 at users.sf.net>.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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