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This is the tasklist for Video Contact Sheet *NIX

Although I use it mainly as a TO-DO list, feel free to fill any bug-reports or feature requests you might have.

Homepage: https://p.outlyer.net/vcs/
Documentation: https://p.outlyer.net/dox/vcs/

ID Task Type Severity Summary Status Progress Due In Version
378Bug ReportMediumBlank frame evasion produces error on latest ImageMagic...Assigned
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1.14 Task Description

Reported by Paul:

> Hey,
I’m using VCS via Homebrew Install (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vcs#default) and since the last update of imagemagick (?) I get dozens of error messages:

>convert: Expected operator at ‘.mean*100’ @ error/fx.c/GetOperator/2408

Confirmed to happen on ImageMagick 7.1 on Linux, the contact sheet is generated but blank frame evasion is skipped

377Feature RequestLowAllow screenshotting half of the video (for side-by-sid...Assigned
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Asked by Bob on the blog

Would it be possible to somehow specify to only screenshot half of the video image (for 180 side-by-side VR videos)?

Or would this require new features to be added to the VCS?
375TO-DOVery LowAllow disabling blank frame evasionAssigned
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1.14 Task Description

Should allow to disable it in both configuration and command-line.

 373 Bug ReportCritical Number of columns is ignored Closed
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Task Description

First reported on BSD and Debian 10 (reproducible), apparently tied to some updated tool

367Feature RequestLowAdd HDR supportAssigned
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1.14 Task Description

HDR isn’t well supported as reported by remlap and ThaDr.

Their comments:

https://outlyer.net/2017-05-26:vcs-1-13-3-released/#comment-30901

Hi I am trying to thumbnail some HDR content is there anyway to insert ffmpeg filters in
-vf zscale=t=linear:npl=100,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=mobius:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p

Thanks

https://outlyer.net/2017-05-26:vcs-1-13-3-released/#comment-32413:

I’m also trying to do some HDR content and pass the -vf info to ffmpeg. I can’t get it to work even using a wrapper script.

It always comes up with awk errors, starting with “unterminated regexp”.

Is there any chance of updating vcs to support manual passing of those -vf arguments to ffmpeg?

HDR content is very common nowadays…

https://outlyer.net/2017-05-26:vcs-1-13-3-released/#comment-32423

I’m using vcs 1.13.2 on ubuntu and ended up doing it by adding the line:

-vf ‘zscale=t=linear:npl=100,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p’ \

at line 2203, in the ffmpeg_capture() function where it sets the ffmpeg command line options.

Couldn’t work out how to do it with a wrapper script.
 366 TO-DOLow Release 1.13.4 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle Task Description

This is a meta-item depending on bugs to be fixed in the 1.13.4 release.

1.13.4 is a minor bugfix release for bugs found while development for 1.14 and 2.0 is stalled.

Previous:  FS#152   FS#218   FS#224   FS#250 
Next: FS#153

 365 Bug ReportLow File sizes are rounded Closed
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1.13.4 Task Description

Reported by remlap

File sizes are displayed as 3.00GiB instead of 3.54GiB

 364 Bug ReportLow Evasion offsets aren't walked over in array Closed
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1.13.4 Task Description

Submitted by Davide Cavestro

The array EVASION_ALTERNATIVES isn’t looped over correctly. Correction:

-		for delta in $EVASION_ALTERNATIVES ; do
+		for delta in ${EVASION_ALTERNATIVES[*]} ; do
363Bug ReportLowFile names with '#' lead to errors when creating versio...Assigned
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1.14 Task Description

I.e. create file sample#.avi

Run vcs on sample#.avi -> sample#.avi.png is created.
Run vcs again. sample#.avi-1.png should be created, but sed generates an error.

 323 Bug ReportCritical Codec information is misaligned/cropped Closed
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1.13.3 Task Description

Originally reported by Markus and Wade

The codec information box gets cropped with current versions of ImageMagick.

315Feature RequestLowRecurse directories, output to current dirAssigned
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Request by Chris Hills

http://outlyer.net/2014-05-18:vcs-1_13_2-released/comment-page-1/#comment-17238:

Thanks Toni. I was hoping I could simply run `$ vcs-1.13.2.bash -? **/*.mp4` to create contact sheets for all videos in all subfolders, but it sounds like I’ll have to use a wrapper script. Would you consider adding this in a future release for a donation?

My reply:

I guess you’re using zsh-ish globbing there.
That’s not something I use so I didn’t even think of the case where recursing could be so simple.
It was a bit of an overlook on my part not to have the option to output to the same directory as the video, probably because recursion always required a wrapper in my head.
 314 Submitted PatchMedium Patch for approximate size calculation Closed
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1.13.3 Task Description

Submitted by someone desiring no credit.

Here’s a patch against 1.13.2 for mistaken approximate size calculation.

Self-notes about the patch:

  • More accurate rounding → Discarded. I went for rounding by excess
  • Leading 0 in fractionary units was not present in the original → BUG
    Sample: Samsung HD sample, 1080pto720p version
 311 Bug ReportMedium Allow disabling coloured output altogether Closed
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1.13.3 Task Description

Reported by DanC

https://outlyer.net/2014-05-18:vcs-1_13_2-released/comment-page-1/#comment-20390:

A great utilty... I’ve been using this for a couple of years now (it runs every night as a cron job).
I’ve been looking at cleaning up the output that cron captures from each of its commands and stores as a system email.
I’ve enabled the -Wc option to prevent coloured output. Mostly this works except near the start of the script when it says:
Settings from /home/danc/.vcs/vcs.conf:
bg_heading
This is still shown in green. Bug?

Currently the colour only stops after the option is found.

 250 TO-DOLow Release 1.13.3 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle Task Description

No need for description

249TO-DOLowAdd libav as possible capturerAssigned
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1.14 Task Description

No need for description

 248 Bug ReportHigh Unsupported format gives errors Closed
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1.13.3 Task Description

Seen in HEVC contained in MPEG-TS

 247 TO-DOLow Add codec identification for H.265/HEVC Closed
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1.13.3 Task Description

ffmpeg: hevc

i.e.:
Stream #0:0[0x12d]: Video: hevc (Main) (HEVC / 0×43564548), yuv420p(tv), 3840×2160, 150 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc Stream #0:0: Video: hevc, yuv420p(tv), 3840×2160, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1200k tbn, 25 tbc

Samples: http://www.elecard.com/en/download/videos.html

227TO-DOLowFailed blank frame evasion should go back to original t...Assigned
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1.14 Task Description

When a frame evasion is tried and given up, the chosen timestamp should be the original instead of the last attempt

 226 Bug ReportVery Low Pre-releases error on files with single quotes in their ...Closed
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1.13.2 Task Description

Pointed out by Miya

eval: line 1874: syntax error in conditional expression
eval: line 1874: syntax error near `got'
eval: line 1874: `[[ -n 'File's got problems.mp4.png' ]]'
Internal error at safe_rename():1510: [[ -n 'File's got problems.mp4.png' ]]
 225 Bug ReportMedium Number of captures exceeded by one with mplayer Closed
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1.13.2 Task Description

Reported by Miya

When using mplayer as capturer and defining a number of captures, the produced number exceeds it by one (i.e. 21 instead of 20).

 224 TO-DOLow Release 1.13.2 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle Task Description

This is a meta-item depending on bugs/features required to complete before releasing vcs 1.13.2

Previous:  FS#152   FS#218 
Next:  FS#250 

 219 Submitted PatchMedium Arch PKGBUILD outdated Closed
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1.13.1 Task Description

Submitted by Eris Belew

Guidelines for the PKGBUILD script have changed.

Submitted updated PKGBUILD.

 218 TO-DOLow Release 1.13.1 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle Task Description

This is a meta-item depending on bugs/features required to complete before releasing vcs 1.14.

Previous:  FS#152 
Next:  FS#224 

 217 Bug ReportMedium Unquoted grep pattern gives problems Closed
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1.13.1 Task Description

Submitted by Eris Belew

Unquotted grep pattern ^ID is problematic.

Patch submitted.

200TO-DOVery LowRelease 2.0Assigned
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Meta: Release Cycle Task Description

This is a meta-item depending on bugs/features required to complete before releasing vcs 2.0.

v2.0 will be a rewrite in Python.

Previous: FS#153

 199 Bug ReportLow Cached captures are filtered more than once Closed
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1.13
 198 Bug ReportLow Console isn't always correctly restored Closed
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1.13
197TO-DOHighMove away from /dev/shmAssigned
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1.14
196TO-DOMediumffmpeg is deprecatedAssigned
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1.14
 195 Bug ReportHigh Too short files might lead to infinte loop Closed
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1.13
194Feature RequestMediumFiles incorrectly reporting "too short" length aren't d...Researching
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 189 Bug ReportHigh VCS is broken on FreeBSD (and Mac OS X) since 1.12.3 Closed
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1.13
 188 TO-DOLow Blank frame evasion Closed
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1.13
 187 Bug ReportLow -U without argument fails Closed
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1.12.3
 179 TO-DOVery Low Add codec identification for FRAPS captures Closed
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1.13
178Submitted PatchLowffmpeg + piped mplayer dump can be used to identifyRequires testing
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1.14
 177 TO-DOLow Safe length feedback should print nicer timestamps Closed
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1.13
 176 TO-DOVery Low Filmstrip not realistic Closed
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1.13
 175 Bug ReportMedium Failure after a certain number of uses Closed
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 174 Bug ReportMedium Video length is checked against mplayer's identificatio ...Closed
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1.12.3
 173 TO-DOLow Switch to Bash 3 Closed
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1.12.3
172TO-DOVery LowDon't autoload './vcs.conf'Assigned
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1.14
 171 TO-DOVery Low Deprecate './vcs.conf' in favour of profiles Closed
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1.13
 170 TO-DOVery Low Release 1.12.3 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle
 169 Bug ReportLow --ffmpeg and --mplayer documented but ignored Closed
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1.12.3
 168 TO-DOLow Create basic manpage Closed
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1.12.2
 167 Submitted PatchMedium Improper cleanup of tempdir Closed
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1.12.2
 166 TO-DOVery Low Support WebM Closed
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1.12.2
 165 TO-DOLow Release 1.12.2 Closed
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Meta: Release Cycle
164Bug ReportVery LowImplement instrumentationAssigned
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