
dvdspanky readme
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about
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dvdspanky is a CLI front-end to transcode and mplex created
specifically for converting various types of video to DVD
MPEGs ready to be used in dvdauthor or similar. it is
designed for clean readable output while being simple,
automated and customisable. this program is written in C.


main features
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- very consistent options no matter the input format
- output preview
- clean output and progress
- destination file size option
- multi pass VBR or single pass CBR
- PAL and NTSC export
- post processing
- transcode filters
- automatic volume adjustment
- automatic fallback to mplayer decoding
- automatic border and croping
- automatic audio bit-rate rounding
- automatic aspect calculations


requirements
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- A POSIX compatible operating system such as GNU/Linux,
  *BSD etc.
- GCC (for gcc), GPL v2 licence
   http://gcc.gnu.org/
- mplayer, GPL v2 licence
   http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
- transcode, GPL v2 licence
   http://www.transcoding.org/
- mjpegtools (for mplex), GPL v2 licence
   http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
- feh, BSD style licence
   http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/


compile dependencies
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- pcre library, PCRE licence (GPL/LGPL compatible)
   http://pcre.sourceforge.net


installation
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./configure [ --prefix dir ]
make
su
make install
exit


software licence
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the software is licenced under the GPL General Public
Licence version 2, the documentation is licenced under the
FDL Free Document Licence. see the COPYING file for the actual
licences.


copyleft
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Copyright (c)  2007  Jeffrey Grembecki.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".

