<para>
The translations for DCP-o-matic have been contributed by helpful
-users. If your language is not on the last, head to <ulink
+users. If your language is not on the last, visit <ulink
url="https://dcpomatic.com/i18n.php">the DCP-o-matic website</ulink> to
find out how to contribute a translation.
</para>
<para>
This is the location of DCP-o-matic's configuration file on disk. You
can use this to share configuration between several copies of
-DCP-o-matic, across a network share, for instance.
+DCP-o-matic: across a network share, for instance.
</para>
</section>
<para>
The checkbox to the left of <guilabel>Play sound</guilabel> enables or
-disables DCP-o-matic use of sound. On some machines there will be
+disables DCP-o-matic's use of sound. On some machines there will be
multiple options in the drop-down menu to decide how the sound should
be played.
</para>
If <guilabel>Find integrated loudness, true peak and loudness range
when analysing audio</guilabel> is ticked, DCP-o-matic will do extra
work when analysing audio. Leave this ticked if the extra parameters
-are useful to you. If not, untick it and audio analysis will be
-faster.
+are useful to you. If not, untick it to make audio analysis faster.
</para>
</section>
<para>
The <guilabel>Check for updates on startup</guilabel> option, if
enabled, will tell DCP-o-matic to check on <ulink
-url="https://dcpomatic.com/">dcpomatic.com</ulink> to see if there any
+url="https://dcpomatic.com/">dcpomatic.com</ulink> to see if there are any
newer versions of DCP-o-matic then the one you are running. If so, a
dialogue box will open with a link to download the new version.
</para>
<para>
The <guilabel>Check for testing updates as well as stable
ones</guilabel> option will also check for test updates as well as
-those that are formally ‘released’. This is useful if you
-like to live on the bleeding edge!
+those that are formally ‘released’.
</para>
</section>
<para>
<guilabel>Protocol</guilabel> should be set to SCP or FTP as
appropriate for your TMS. We know that the Arts Alliance Media (AAM)
-and the Doremi ranges uses SCP connections, and that Dolby's TMSs use
+and the Doremi ranges uses SCP connections, and that Dolby's TMS uses
FTP. Do let us know if you use any other type of TMS with the
<guilabel>Send DCP to TMS</guilabel> feature.
</para>
</para>
<para>
-The bottom box in the tab is the contents of the email that should
+The bottom box in the tab is the content of the email that should
be sent. DCP-o-matic will replace the ‘magic’ strings
<code>$JOB_NAME</code> and <code>$JOB_STATUS</code> in the with the
details of the job that has completed.
</para>
<para>
-The four checkboxes labelled <guilabel>Log</guilabel> control what
+The checkboxes labelled <guilabel>Log</guilabel> control what
sort of messages DCP-o-matic writes to its log file when creating a
DCP. It is useful to leave <guilabel>General</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Warnings</guilabel> and <guilabel>Errors</guilabel> ticked
There are some limitations to video and audio frame rates in DCPs. This is
complicated by the fact that not all projectors will play DCPs at the
same frame rates. It is possible to create a DCP which one projector will
-play fine, but another (of a different type) will refuse to play.
+play fine, but another (of a different type, or even just with a different software version) will refuse to play.
</para>
</para>
<para>
-Video rate conversion is harder. DCP-o-matic's basic strategy to deal
+Video rate conversion is harder. DCP-o-matic's strategy to deal
with a non-supported content rate is to run it at the wrong speed, and
to adjust the audio to keep it in sync.
</para>
</para>
<para>
-If you want to experiment with other non-standard frame rates, you can
-do so by ticking the <guilabel>Allow any DCP frame rate</guilabel> in
+You can experiment with other non-standard frame rates
+by ticking the <guilabel>Allow any DCP frame rate</guilabel> in
the <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab of the preferences dialogue (see the
<xref linkend="sec-prefs-advanced" endterm="sec-prefs-advanced-short"/>). You are strongly advised to
use this only on your own equipment, and only for experimentation
</para>
<para>
-The master and server machines do not need to be the same type, so you
+The master and server machines do not need to be running the same operating system, so you
can mix Windows PCs, Macs and Linux machines as you wish.
</para>
<title>Running the servers</title>
<para>
-There are two options for the encoding server;
+There are two options for the encoding server:
<code>dcpomatic_server_cli</code>, which runs on the command line, and
<code>dcpomatic_server</code>, which has a simple GUI. The command line
version is well-suited to headless servers, especially on Linux, and
<code>DCP-TEST_EN-XX_UK-U_51_2K_CSY_20130218_CSY_OV</code>. This
contains some small XML files, which describe the DCP, and two large
MXF files, which contain the DCP's audio and video data. It may also
-contain subtitles in either XML or MXF format. This folder
+contain subtitles or closed captions in either XML or MXF format. This folder
(<code>DCP-TEST_EN-XX_...</code>) is what you should ingest, or pass
to the cinema which is showing your DCP.
</para>
<listitem>Check the subtitle appearance in the preview; it will be
slow to respond as it is having to decompress images from the existing
DCP. Adjust the appearance using controls in the
-<guilabel>Subtitle</guilabel> tab if required.</listitem>
+<guilabel>Timed Text</guilabel> or <guilabel>Closed Captions</guilabel> tabs if required.</listitem>
<listitem>Choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> from the menu.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<listitem>Check the subtitle appearance in the preview; it will be
slow to respond as it is having to decompress images from the existing
DCP. Adjust the appearance using controls in the
-<guilabel>Subtitle</guilabel> tab if required.</listitem>
+<guilabel>Timed Text</guilabel> or <guilabel>Closed Captions</guilabel> tabs if required.</listitem>
<listitem>Choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> from the menu.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
resolution.
</para>
+ <para>Another way to improve performance is to set the <guilabel>Video display mode</guilabel>
+ in <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> to <guilabel>OpenGL (faster)</guilabel>. This should provide
+ a significant speed-up on most systems, although this mode has not been so widely tested so may
+ have problems.
+ </para>
+
</chapter>