Written by                   Carsten Siebholz <c.siebholz AT t-online.de>
                             Andreas Brachold <vdr04 AT deltab de>

Project's homepage:          http://c.siebholz.bei.t-online.de

Latest version available at: http://c.siebholz.bei.t-online.de


See the file COPYING for license information.



Description:
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  convpic is a program to convert images to an own simple format
  (*.glcd) that is used by the graphlcd plugin for VDR.




Installation and Configuration:
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  1. unpack the tarball

  2. to compile the tool, type
     make




Using convpic:
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  Usage: convpic [-n] [-d x] -i infile [more files] -o outfile

  -n  --invert      inverts the output (default: no)
  -i  --infile      specifies the name of the input file
  -o  --outfile     specifies the name of the output file
  -d  --delay       specifies the delay delay between multiple images

  supported formats:
                    TIFF : file is an uncompressed RGB-encoded 2-color TIFF
                    BMP  : file is an uncompressed RGB-encoded 2-color Windows BMP
                    ANI  : file is an uncompressed multi-frame from tuxbox-aniplay
                    GLCD : file is the own format used by the graphlcd plugin for VDR

  example: convpic -i vdr-logo.bmp -o vdr-logo.glcd




Known Problems:
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  Export of TIFF is'nt supported.
