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authorCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-01-08 00:15:48 +0000
committerCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-01-08 00:15:48 +0000
commitf300b07097dc04c26557f62b4c7306bd21da23c3 (patch)
tree580060d4ecf567d7bbbb535dfe90828c4e55589d
parentfd0121868a2ee8745a8f2bf9080751a3d263d178 (diff)
Manual tweaks.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml40
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
index 3066a6c31..1519562fd 100644
--- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Hello, and welcome to DCP-o-matic!
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package">Digital
Cinema Packages</ulink> (DCPs) from video, audio and/or
subtitle files.</listitem>
- <listitem>Playback of DCPs on a PC.</listitem>
+ <listitem>Playback and verification of DCPs on a PC/Mac.</listitem>
<listitem>Creation of KDMs for DCPs.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -141,22 +141,15 @@ with the first (main) part.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>Debian 7 (&lsquo;wheezy&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Debian 8 (&lsquo;jessie&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Debian 9 (&lsquo;squeeze&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Debian unstable (&lsquo;sid&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Ubuntu 14.04 (&lsquo;Trusty Tahr&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Ubuntu 16.04 (&lsquo;Xenial Xerus&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Ubuntu 18.04 (&lsquo;Bionic Beaver&rsquo;)</listitem>
- <listitem>Mint 17</listitem>
- <listitem>Mint 18</listitem>
- <listitem>Mint 19</listitem>
+ <listitem>Debian 7 (&lsquo;wheezy&rsquo;), 8 (&lsquo;jessie&rsquo;), 9 (&lsquo;squeeze&rsquo;) and unstable (&lsquo;sid&rsquo;)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Ubuntu 14.04 (&lsquo;Trusty Tahr&rsquo;), 16.04 (&lsquo;Xenial Xerus&rsquo;) and 18.04 (&lsquo;Bionic Beaver&rsquo;)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Mint 17, 18 and 19</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
using <code>.deb</code> packages: download the appropriate package
from <ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
-and double-click it. Debian or Ubuntu will install the necessary bits and
+and double-click it. Debian, Ubuntu or Mint will install the necessary bits and
pieces and set DCP-o-matic up for you.
</para>
</section>
@@ -167,7 +160,7 @@ pieces and set DCP-o-matic up for you.
<section>
<title>Fedora, Centos and Mageia Linux</title>
- <para>There are <code>.rpm</code> packages for Fedora 27 and 28, Centos 6 and 7 and Mageia 6 on
+ <para>There are <code>.rpm</code> packages for Fedora 27, 28 and 29, Centos 6 and 7 and Mageia 6 on
<ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
</para>
</section>
@@ -204,7 +197,6 @@ The following dependencies are required:
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org/">libopenjpeg</ulink></listitem>
-<listitem><ulink url="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php">ImageMagick</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.boost.org/">Boost</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.libssh.org/">libssh</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK (on Linux)</ulink></listitem>
@@ -1045,11 +1037,11 @@ url="http://dcpomatic.com/manual/colour.pdf">colour.pdf</ulink>.
<title>Other settings</title>
<para>
-The <guilabel>crop</guilabel> settings can be used to crop your content,
-which can be used to remove black borders from round the edges of DVD
-images, for example. The specified number of pixels will be trimmed
-from each edge, and the content image in the right of the window will
-be updated to show the effect of the crop.
+The <guilabel>crop</guilabel> settings can be used to crop your
+content, which is often used to remove black borders from the edges of
+the image. The specified number of pixels will be trimmed from each
+edge, and the content image in the right of the window will be updated
+to show the effect of the crop.
</para>
<para>
@@ -2402,8 +2394,8 @@ system; possible locations are listed in <xref linkend="ch-config"/>
<title>Preferences</title>
<para>
-DCP-o-matic provides a few preferences which can be used to modify its
-behaviour. This chapter explains those options.
+DCP-o-matic provides preferences which can be used to modify its
+behaviour. They are described in this chapter.
</para>
<para>
@@ -2985,8 +2977,8 @@ even refuse to ingest.
<para>
The only rates that are (pretty much) guaranteed to work on all DCI
-projectors are 24 frames per second (fps) for video and 48kHz or 96kHz
-for audio. If you are sending your DCPs to unknown places it wise to
+projectors are 24 frames per second (fps) for video and 48kHz for
+audio. If you are sending DCPs to unknown places it is wise to
consider using these rates if at all possible.
</para>
@@ -2998,7 +2990,7 @@ consider using these rates if at all possible.
<title>Other often-supported rates</title>
<para>
Many projectors now in the wild support additional video frame rates:
-25, 30 and 48 fps.
+25, 30, 48, 50 and 60 fps.
</para>
</section>