Re: [VCDImager] Menus, PSD files...

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

We know already how psd files works... :-)

(if you want to find out more, I've seen some .pdf manuals at philips, for
their SVCD authoring/designer tools...)

as it concern any GUI... that's what the XML stuff I'm working on is
for... ppl can create their own GUIs, creating an XML description of the
vcd, which is then 'compiled' by the to be finished vcdxml 'frontend'...

btw2: I'm working on finishing version 0.6.1, which is mainly bugfixes;
this time I'll build a win32-executable as well, since address@hidden
seems to be unavailable... (anyone knows what happened to him?) expect it
RSN...

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chris Gallaty wrote:

> Hello,
>       I'm just getting into VCDs here. I was wondering if there are is
> any info on the Net about 'PSD' files or the how to code menus. I know
> this is the million dollar question, but everywhere I look on the Net, the
> question is usually answered with 'use package X' and never any detail as
> to the actual workings of menus. Has anyone seen details of this (reverse
> enginneering, etc) on the Net? I don't have the $200 to shell out for the
> whitebook spec (and if I did I'd prolly buy a better capture card :) If I
> could get a hold of the spec, I think it would be fun to write I program
> to setup menus (perhaps in Java). I know people would use it.
>
>       Also, has anyone here played with capturing on a Mac with
> Premiere? I have access to a PowerMac 8600 with a built-in TV/Video card.
> The issue is that I can't find a file format that I can convert from that
> it will output. I know there are Panasonic/Xing plugins to go direct to
> MPEG1/2, but I don't mind transfering the files over and converting them
> as I suspect that those are pricey. I do my actual buring on a Slackware
> box.
>
>       Currently I have a cheap Dazzle parallel port dongle (the older
> one, not the DV) While the VCD setting in the Amigo software is nice, I
> still have to rip apart the adio and video streams and re-weave them
> before buring. That and the quality is low. I think it's the fact that the
> hardware can't cache that many macro blocks and so on scenes where it
> should only be updating part of the screen, it's actually reencoding the
> static parts and you get this jitter-bug effect going on. Kinda like
> watching Dr. Katz. I was just thrilled to get video from a tape to a VCD
> for the first time. :) Now I'm looking at the amount of stuff I want to
> convert and the effort/quality equations are starting to concern me.
>
>                                               Thanx,
>                                                  Chris Gallaty
>
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>
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