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/** @mainpage DVD-o-matic
 *
 *  DVD-o-matic is a tool to create digital cinema packages (DCPs) from
 *  video files, or from sets of TIFF image files.  It is written in C++
 *  and distributed under the GPL.
 *
 *  Video files are decoded using FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org), so any video
 *  supported by FFmpeg should be usable with DVD-o-matic.  Most testing has, however,
 *  happened with files from DVD.  DVD-o-matic's output has been tested on Christie
 *  digital projectors with Doremi servers.
 *
 *  DVD-o-matic allows you to crop black borders from movies, scale them to the correct
 *  aspect ratio and apply FFmpeg filters.  The time-consuming encoding of JPEG2000 files
 *  can be parallelised amongst any number of processors on the local host and any number
 *  of servers over a network.
 *
 *  DVD-o-matic can also make DCPs from still images, for advertisements and such-like.
 * 
 *  Portions of DVD-o-matic are based on OpenDCP (http://code.google.com/p/opendcp),
 *  written by Terrence Meiczinger.
 *
 *  DVD-o-matic uses libopenjpeg (http://code.google.com/p/openjpeg/) for JPEG2000 encoding
 *  and libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) for WAV file manipulation.  It
 *  also makes heavy use of the boost libraries (http://www.boost.org/).  libtiff
 *  (http://www.libtiff.org/) is used for TIFF encoding and decoding, and the GUI is
 *  built using wxWidgets (http://wxwidgets.org/).  It also uses libmhash (http://mhash.sourceforge.net/)
 *  for debugging purposes.
 *
 *  Thanks are due to the authors and communities of all DVD-o-matic's dependencies.
 * 
 *  DVD-o-matic is distributed in the hope that there are still cinemas with projectionists
 *  who might want to use it.  As Mark Kermode says, "if it doesn't have a projectionist
 *  it's not a cinema - it's a sweetshop with a video-screen."
 *
 *  Email correspondance is welcome to cth@carlh.net
 *
 *  More details can be found at http://carlh.net/dvdomatic
 */