[VCDImager Bugs/Devel] a bit of a hack for doing PBC

[Matto Marjanovic]

Well, it's cleaner than a hack, but it's not completely the 'right way',
 either, but it's getting the job done.  I'll probably refine it over the
 next couple of weeks (using it for a project), but maybe it will be 
 useful to someone now, or even handy for general distribution.

I wrote some code which adds a "--pcb-config" command-line option to
 vcdimager which allows you to give a file which specifies a Playback
 Control configuration --- so you can make up menus, etc.  No XML is
 involved, just a very simple group/keyword/value syntax (that looks
 a lot like windows registry files, but that is just coincidence).
If "--pcb-config" is not specified, the original behavior is maintained.

You can specify 'tracks', 'entries', or 'segments', and it should construct
 the PSD.VCD file appropriately, however there are currently no ways that
 I know of to add segment items or extra entry points to a disk, and I
 didn't attack that.

Attached is a patch file for vcdimager-0.6.0.  It adds an extra option
 to ./configure:  "--with-pbc-config", which you need to specify to enable
 the new code (which is otherwise #ifdef'd out of existence).  The patch
 file only modifies 'configure.in', so you must automake and autoconf 
 after applying it.

(The patch also adds three files to libvcd/, modifies some others, modifies
 frontends/cli/vcdimager.c, and puts a descriptive sample configuration file
 in frontends/cli/.)


Whoo-hoo!
matt m.

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