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