NOTE: ALL OF THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. EVENTUALLY THIS ENTIRE PROJECT
WILL DISAPPEAR AND BE MERGED INTO XINE PROPER!

xine_vcdx - VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD, HQVCD with playback control (PBC) and
segment support

Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a xine Video CD plugin for the xine media player. Its aim is
to add the full compliment of advanced VCD/SVCD features to xine:
playback control (PBC) including selections, still-frames and menus.

Multiple audio tracks (found only in the SVCD standard) and subtitles
are not really part this plugin. xine currenly handles multiple audio
tracks. Someone is working on subtitle support, but that will be added
as a separately and into the xine library.

Updates to this plugin normally are attached with an updates to xine
itself so normally one should fetch the latest xine-lib and xine-ui
from xine's CVS and that works with the latest release of
xine-vcdx. Releases of the plugin follow the same versioning scheme as
xine itself, so if you have version x.y.z of xine, the x.y.z release
of the vcdx plugin should work with it.  If however you are using
version a.b.c and there is no corresponding a.b.c of this plugin pick
the release that is closest and greater if that exists. If there is
none or when you install you don't see a VCDX button then try the
release that is closes and less.

Please see the bugs section in NEWS for current issues before posting
bug reports to the list.

Software  Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 * A version of xine-lib and xine-ui which matches the version number of this
   release.

 * A version of vcdimager with vcdinfo support

Usage
~~~~~

The plugin adds the 'vcdx://' MRL-type to Xine. To launch Xine from
the command line and make it play the VCD in the default selection
from the default CD device, simply use

  $ xine *xine-options* vcdx:// 

Alternatively, start xine GUI, click on the 'XVCD' button and press 'play' or
Bring up the MRL browser and click on XVCD for a list. 

More information
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

More information on configuration customization, user interface
behavior and guts behind the plugin can be found in the doc
directory.

Acknowledgements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The plugin would be next to useless without the work of the xine
project (http://xine.sf.net/) and the vcdimager project
(http://vcdimager.org)

Ideas and code originated from the xine's vcd plugin, the xine
dvdnav plugin and libraries were distilled from the vcdimager package.

Copyright
~~~~~~~~~

xine_vcdx is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

