Requirements: =============== EXTERNAL SOURCE: ------------------ Perl You will need perl 5.6 or above with the Config::IniFiles and GD modules, along with any of their dependencies. Grab them from CPAN if your distribution doesn't have them. READ optional INSTALL.dvdmenu NETPBM >= 10.11.4-12 TRANSCODE >= 0.6.10 just because we need tcprobe. version 0.6.7 may work either not tested. MPEG The mjpeg-tools package is required for menu generation, and you'll probably want it to edit your titles anyway. mjpegtools >= 1.6.1.90 http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net Font You'll need a font. Any TrueType font file can be used, but you'll have to experiment to find one which looks good. DVDAuthor And, of course, the package which does all the work, dvdauthor. http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ dvdauthor >= 338, with the submux patch (patch-bundled) INCLUDED HEREIN: ------------------ - M2VRequantizer's requant, if you like to use the fast way to shorten mpeg2 video ES ! - sources of with my patched version is attached here .. - i had to do a little bugfix for corrupted ES streams .. - 2 little shell scripts are provided to create the binary .. - vdrsync.pl - you need at least version >= 0.1.2.2 this is an unpatched version which fits this requirements .. - dvdmenu.pl, dvdmenu_make.sh, .. - you need at least version >= 0.3.0-jau01 this is 's dvdmenu-0.3.0 one, modified for easy title- and audio-menu's ! - vdrcutter2 - just apply the included vdr-1.2.5-vdrcutter2.v2.patch to a vanilla vdr-1.2.5 - the patch adds a new target: vdrcutter2 - make and install vdrcutter2 Installation / Configuration ============================= READ optional INSTALL.dvdmenu Assume VDR video dir is: /video Assume repackmpeg2 is: /video/repackmpeg2 mkdir mkdir /video/repackmpeg2 copy: cp \ dodvd.sh \ dvdmenu-SKEL.ini \ dvdmenu-title-SKEL.ini \ dvdmenu.pl \ dvdmenu_make.sh \ repackmpeg2.sh \ repackmpeg2Many.sh \ repackmpeg2_vdr.sh \ silence.mp2 \ vdrsync.pl \ xste-palette.yuv \ \ /video/repackmpeg2/ cp reccmds.conf to /video if you choose other dir's, edit repackmpeg2_vdr.sh, reccmds.conf and dvdmenu_make.sh ! to customize your reccmds just edit reccmds.conf ! make sure your 'at' commands works with TIME 'now', as well as your atd daemon does run ! Tested with VDR 1.2.5 !