vcs

Safe length measuring, when probing the video length, prints only the number of seconds and milliseconds, it would be better to display a more readable format.

As found in mtn.

Try to avoid capturing mostly-blank frames.

At least on some systems, the console/terminal needs a manual reset (or tset) to be usable after running vcs.

When repeated captures are avoided, captures end up being filtered more than once

The function that vcs.conf in current dir accomplished is covered by profiles. If wanted it can still be manually loaded with -C :pwd or -C vcs.conf

The filmstrip mode has had a placeholder implementation since the start, it should look closer to an actual film strip.

E.g.: http://sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/gimp/sprocket

mplayer: FPS1

i.e.:
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=fffraps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=FPS1

ffmpeg: fraps

i.e.:
Stream #0.0: Video: fraps, yuvj420p, 1680x1050, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc

Internal: Stale code from prior versions, numsecs inside process() uses mplayer’s value instead of the best value to determine video length (and keep or discard timestamps).

As a side-effect, newer code being more strict about array vs string handling can fail easily.

When a timestamp is present in more than one set (highlights/std/extended) there’s no need to re-capture it.

See also  FS#123 

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Bash 2 syntax has been the norm for most versions (although broken in some).

So far none of the major distributions is using bash 2, bash 4 is already gold but not widely-used enough.

Only a few special purpose/minimal distros like DSL retain bash 2.05b, but vcs requires recent versions of ImageMagick, Mplayer and FFmpeg anyway. I can’t see a reason to retain such backwards compatibility.

Parsing of the “-U” option (optional argument) is incorrect, it always receives an argument (empty if none provided) which must be shifted manually. Currently it’s only shifted if provided explicitly.

“–fullname” is not affected since it doesn’t take any arguments.

Originally submitted by Jason Tackaberry

VCS’ temporary dir (and its contents) is not removed on cleanup. Space in /dev/shm is wasted as a result.

Patch attached.

Configuration options that will trigger a change of all fonts, background and foreground settings respectively

font_filename is ignored in 1.12

An alternative in the form of (boolean) nonlatin_filenames or similar should be added.

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WebM: http://www.webmproject.org/

Uses VP8 video and Vorbis audio.

Current Status:

Identification

MPlayer: Video detected as VP80
FFmpeg:
* 0.5.1+svn20100311: Not supported (fails in the safe-length-detection stage)
* 0.6~svn20100603: Video detected as libvpx

Capture

Both appear to work fine.

Original report by ya at:

Video Contact Sheet *NIX v1.12, (c) 2007-2010 Toni Corvera
Processing <FILE>...
awk: BEGIN { if (4993,00000000000000000000 == 0) exit 0 ; else exit 1 }
awk:                 ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (4993,00000000000000000000 == 0) exit 0 ; else exit 1 }
awk:                                           ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (4993,00000000000000000000 == 0) exit 0 ; else exit 1 }
awk:                                                      ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { printf "%.20f", ((4993,00000000000000000000 - 4993.92))+0 }
awk:                                                               ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { printf "%.20f", ((4993,00000000000000000000 - 4993.92))+0 }
awk:                                                                ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:              ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:                ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:                       ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:                                 ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:                                       ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN { if (() < (0)) print (() * -1) ; else print () }
awk:                                                       ^ syntax error
...

This is a meta-item depending on bugs/features required to complete before releasing vcs 1.12.1

Originally reported by Dougn Redhammer

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Introduce new names in 1.12 (this)

Remove old names in 1.13 or 1.14 (FS#151)

Doing this better will remove from of the duplication with overrides, specially on the filename font/non-latin stuff

i.e.

interval=5m

End offset will be set to a small percentage of the length (5.5%? –5m for 90m–), applicable always by default, instead of a fixed value