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NAME

       movie-title - Creates a menu for a set of movies on a DVD

SYNOPSIS

       movie-title  [-C]  -o output  -t title_seq  [-T XxY] [-s start] [-c interval] source_video
              [...]

DESCRIPTION

       This program takes one or more video streams (which are the .m2v or .vob  files  that  are
       produced  by movie-to-dvd) and exactly one title sequence (as produced by movie-make-title
       or movie-make-title-simple) and combines all of them into a navigational menu from which a
       viewer of the DVD can choose which movie he or she wants to see.

       The  program will produce a VOB file that can be used as a menu if you want to do your own
       DVD authoring, but it will also produce an XML file that can be used directly as an  input
       file  for  dvdauthor,  the  program  that  you will most likely be using to create the DVD
       images that you can burn on a real DVD.

THE MENU

       The menu will look as follows: the background that will fill the entire screen will be the
       supplied title sequence (as produced by movie-make-title or movie-make-title-simple).  The
       sound from the title sequence (if any) will be audible while the viewer is choosing  which
       movie to watch.

       If  the  animated  type of menu was chosen in movie-make-title or movie-make-title-simple,
       each movie in the menu will be presented by having a rectangle in  the  menu  in  which  a
       picture-in-picture version of that movie is display (exactly as long as the title sequence
       is itself).

       If the static type of menu was chosen in movie-make-title or movie-make-title-simple, each
       movie  in  the menu will be presented by having a rectangle in the menu in which one frame
       of that movie is displayed, that will remain unchanged while the menu is being displayed.

       If the none type of menu was chosen in movie-make-title or  movie-make-title-simple,  none
       of the movies in the menu will have a preview image at all.

       Below  the rectangle (or below the navigation button(s) if there is no preview image), the
       name of the movie will be displayed.  If no further information is supplied  (see  further
       on),  the  movie's  file name will be used as the title (which is most likely not what you
       want), otherwise the supplied title will be used.  Above the rectangle (or above the title
       if no preview images are present), a "play" icon will be displayed, which can be chosen by
       using the DVD player's remote to play the movie.  If more information  is  supplied  (more
       than  just  a  title), an extra "information" icon will be displayed as well, which can be
       selected in order to view the extra supplied information.

EXTRA INFORMATION

       If supplied, one can  also  add  information  about  the  movies  to  the  DVD:  an  extra
       information icon will appear with the movie's title, and when chosen, the information will
       appear for the viewer to read.  If there is  more  information  than  will  fit  onto  the
       screen, a scrollbar will be created, and the viewer will be able to scroll by using the up
       and down keys on his or her DVD player's remote control.

       The way the extra information works is as follows: create a file with the same name as the
       video  stream's  name, except using .info as the extension instead of .m2v or .vob.  So if
       you have a video stream called my_home_video.m2v, then  you  should  create  a  text  file
       called my_home_video.info.

EXTRA INFORMATION FORMAT

       The  file  has  a  certain  format:  the first line should be the title of the movie as it
       should be displayed in the menu.  You may use the special  character  ^  (carrot,  usually
       shift-6)  to  split  up  the  title into multiple lines.  This is useful when the title is
       quite long and is too wide to fit in the grid.

       The remainder of the file may be used to supply information about the movie.  If the  file
       contains  only  one  line,  only  the title will be used and no "information" icon will be
       displayed for this movie.  Lines should normally not be any wider than about 60 characters
       to avoid the lines being wider than the screen can display.

EXTRA INFORMATION COLORS

       To  introduce  some  extra  clarity,  you  may  specify  in  which  color a line should be
       displayed.  Usually, the text is white (and the background is always black).  You may type
       a hash mark (#) followed by a six-character hexadecimal color code (the same as those used
       on the web) followed by a space followed by the line itself to display a line in a certain
       color.

EXTRA INFORMATION EXAMPLE

       An example of a .info file could be:

       My first words
       #ffff00 Title:
           My first words

       #ff00ff Date:
           September 8th, 1975

       #ff0000 Synopsis:
           A home video that captures my first words as a child!

       In  this  case,  the  title  is "My first words", which will be displayed in the DVD menu.
       Further more, extra information is supplied, which can be viewed using  the  "information"
       icon on the DVD.  The "Title:" line will be in yellow, the "Date:" line in magenta and the
       "Synopsis:" line will be presented in red.  The other text will be in plain white.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -o output
              Specifies the name of the menu VOB file that should be produced by this program.

              Not only this file is created, but a whole lot of other files as well.  These files
              can be automatically cleaned up by using the -C option (see the information there).

              The most notable files are output itself (which is a VOB file that can be used as a
              menu, if you want to do your own DVD authoring) and output-dvdauthor.xml, which  is
              an  XML file that can be given to dvdauthor's -x option to create the DVD image for
              you.

              There is also output-overlay.gif, which will contain the titles and the  rectangles
              used in the menu.  This file can be viewed to see whether the titles all fit nicely
              in the menu before you decide to burn it to a real DVD.

              Personally, I usually use the name title.vob (short and to-the-point).

       -C     When this option is supplied (and the rest the of arguments  remain  as  they  were
              when  the  program is first run), the program will clean up all the temporary files
              that were created for producing the DVD image.  When the  program  is  run  without
              this  option,  it  will suggest a command line to run including this option when it
              finishes, to clean up.

       -t title_sequence
              This option tells the program which title sequence directory  to  use,  which  must
              have  been  created  my  movie-make-title  or  movie-make-title-simple  beforehand.
              Please look in the manual pages for  movie-make-title  and  movie-make-title-simple
              for more information on how to use those programs.

       -T XxY Normally,  the  program  will  determine by itself what the optimal grid size is in
              which to present all the movies at once.  For example, if there are five movies, it
              will  set  the  grid  size  to  three by two (leaving one space blank).  Using this
              option, you may override the program's default grid size and set it to X by Y (note
              the letter x in between the two numbers).  If you specify a grid size that has more
              spaces than there are movies, the last few spaces  will  be  left  blank.   If  you
              specify  a  grid size that has fewer spaces than there are movies, the program will
              tell you so and will refuse to run.

       -s start
              Normally, the program  will  start  capturing  frames  for  the  picture-in-picture
              versions of the movies to put in the menu from the beginning (first frame) of those
              movies.  This is often just fine, but sometimes you will want  to  start  capturing
              frames somewhere beyond the start.  You could want this if all the movies start the
              same way, for example.  You'll also want to use this if you are  displaying  static
              preview images in your menu: if you don't, you will probably just see a black image
              because the first image of a movie is rarely anything useful.  Using  this  option,
              you  can  specify  a  number  seconds, which will be used as a seek position in the
              movie before any frames are captured.

       -c interval
              Sets how long a chapter lasts in the movies.  Chapters are created  every  interval
              minutes  in  the movies.  This makes the movie easy to navigate with a DVD player's
              remote control.  The default is 2 minutes.  If you  do  not  want  chapters  to  be
              created, specify none.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If  this  program is called with a incorrect set of parameters, it will print a diagnostic
       message telling the user what went wrong.  Also, it will then print its usage information,
       listing all the options and their meanings.

       The program tells you what it is doing while it is running.

EXAMPLE

       The command line that I use most often is:

              movie-title -o title.vob -t title input1.m2v input2.m2v

AFTER RUNNING THE PROGRAM

       Once the program has been run, you should run dvdauthor to create a DVD image that you can
       burn to a real DVD.  The program will tell you how to run dvdauthor once it has  finished.
       Also,  it  will  suggest  what to run after dvdauthor has done its job to clean up all the
       temporary files that are no longer necessary at that point.

BURNING THE IMAGE TO A REAL DVD

       Once you have created a DVD image with dvdauthor, you may burn it onto a  real  DVD.   How
       this is done depends on which program you use for that.  Personally, I use growisofs.  The
       command line that I use for that program is:

              growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/dvd directory_with_image

       The directory_with_image is the directory that you specified in dvdauthor's -o option.

MOVIES WITH MORE THAN ONE PART

       Some movies are split up into more than one part.  That is, you have more than one .m2v or
       .vob  file,  which together make up the entire movie.  For example, you could have a movie
       that has been split up into separate sections, each lasting a half hour at the most.

       In this case, you don't want all the sections to appear in the menu, just the section from
       which you want to rip the picture-in-picture view for use in the menu.

       You should supply just the .m2v or .vob as an argument to this program from which you want
       to rip the frames for use in the menu, along with any other .m2v or .vob  files  that  you
       want  to appear in the menu.  Once the program is done, just before you run dvdauthor, you
       should edit the file called output-dvdauthor.xml.  Look for the  line  that  contains  the
       file  name  of the section of the movie that you specified on the command line.  Copy this
       line and paste it below the existing line until you have as many lines as that  there  are
       parts  of  the  movie.   Now,  edit the file names in each of the lines so that you end up
       naming all of the sections of the movie.

       Now, when you run dvdauthor, it will join all of the sections together into  one  complete
       movie.  It will do this for all the movies that had been split up.

SEE ALSO

       videotrans(1),  movie-make-title(1),  movie-make-title-simple(1),  movie-to-dvd(1), movie-
       compare-dvd(1), movie-rip-epg.data(1)

AUTHOR

       The author is Sven  Berkvens-Matthijsse  (sven@berkvens.net).   Please  send  any  project
       related e-mail to videotrans@berkvens.net.

BUGS

       None known. Please report any bugs to videotrans@berkvens.net!

                                            videotrans                             movie-title(1)