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| author | Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net> | 2021-10-06 01:16:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net> | 2021-10-06 01:16:35 +0200 |
| commit | da5a9e65ca466fe6652bafc04d344b7a57efcaf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 589cb676f59cc2130f5c6a554605063f5ddc00c9 /doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml | |
| parent | 969906f2dd6c5c144781861f53e2a0f6baefb9a3 (diff) | |
Add some details about verification to the manual.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml | 37 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml index 797a49fe5..87d3287ae 100644 --- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml +++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml @@ -3741,7 +3741,7 @@ The full details of OV and VF files are discussed in <xref linkend="sec-overlay" </chapter> <chapter xml:id="ch-player" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en"> - <title>Playing and verifying DCPs</title> + <title>Playing DCPs</title> <para>DCP-o-matic includes a DCP player, and although it requires a very high-speed CPU to play DCPs in full resolution, it can also @@ -3767,12 +3767,43 @@ The full details of OV and VF files are discussed in <xref linkend="sec-overlay" resolution. </para> +</chapter> + + +<chapter xml:id="ch-verifier" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en"> + <title>Verifying DCPs</title> + <para> - The player also offers a simple DCP validator. To check a DCP, + The player also offers a DCP validator. To check a DCP, open it and then select <guilabel>Verify DCP</guilabel> from the - <guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu. This will run some basic checks to see if the DCP meets the required standards. + <guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu. This will run various checks on the DCP. + </para> + + <para> + The validator will report three kinds of problems: </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem>Errors — serious problems with the DCP that are likely to cause problems on playback.</listitem> + <listitem>Bv2.1 errors — errors described by the <ulink url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9161348">SMPTE Bv2.1 standard</ulink>.</listitem> + <listitem>Warnings — small problems that may not matter.</listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <section> + <title>Errors</title> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="verify_errors.xml"/> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Bv2.1 errors</title> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="verify_bv21_errors.xml"/> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Warnings</title> + <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="verify_warnings.xml"/> + </section> + </chapter> |