
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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- consistent options no matter the input source
- clean and clear output
- time saving options such as automatic letter-boxing and destination file size specification
- multiple frame-rate conversion methods
- transcode's filters including post-processing
- oreview your settings
- automatic fallback mplayer decoding
- automatic DVD compatibility adjustments


requirements
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- A POSIX compliant operating system
- mplayer
    GPL v2 licence
    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
- transcode
    GPL v2 licence
    http://www.transcoding.org/
- MJPEG Tools (mjpeg)
    GPL v2 licence
    http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
- feh
    BSD style licence
    http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/
- Sound eXchange (sox) > 13.0.0
    GPL v2 licence
    http://sox.sf.net/


compile dependencies
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- GNU Compiler Collection
    GPL v2 licence
    http://gcc.gnu.org/
- Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (pcre)
    PCRE licence - GPL compatible
    http://pcre.sf.net/
- ImageMagick
    Custom licence - GPL compatible
    http://www.imagemagick.org/


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".

