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

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.

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Reported by remlap

File sizes are displayed as 3.00GiB instead of 3.54GiB

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

Originally reported by Markus and Wade

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

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

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.

No need for description

Seen in HEVC contained in MPEG-TS

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

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' ]]

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).

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

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Submitted by Eris Belew

Guidelines for the PKGBUILD script have changed.

Submitted updated PKGBUILD.

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

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Submitted by Eris Belew

Unquotted grep pattern ^ID is problematic.

Patch submitted.

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

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

As reported by Dirk Reiners (paraphrased)

When steps get too small they might round to 0 ⇒ infinite loop in compute_timecodes.

Version 1.12.3 breaks on FreeBSD due to the usage of GNU-specific extensions of expr, sed and an incompatible Bash RE.

As found in mtn.

Try to avoid capturing mostly-blank frames.

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.

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

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.

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