vcs

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Originally reported by Aleksandar Urosevic.

Example provided:

$ vcs -n4 -e8 Some\ File.avi
Video Contact Sheet *NIX v1.0.8a, (c) 2007 Toni Corvera
Overridden variable 'user' from file /home/user/.vcs.conf
Processing Farce of the Penguins.avi...
Generating capture #1/4 (19:46.30)...
Generating capture #2/4 (39:32.61)...
Generating capture #3/4 (59:18.91)...
Generating capture #4/4 (1:19:05.22)...
Composing standard contact sheet...
/home/user/bin/vcs: line 1358: 2*: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*")
/home/user/bin/vcs: line 855: [: -eq: unary operator expected
(standard_in) 2: parse error
Internal error
(standard_in) 2: parse error
Internal error
Composing extended contact sheet...
montage: missing an image filename `/dev/shm/vcs.ZM9017/vcs-CT9439.png'.
convert: missing an image filename `/dev/shm/vcs.ZM9017/vcs-CT9439.png'.
Merging contact sheets...
Adding header and footer...
Done. Output wrote to Some File.avi.png
Cleaning up...

Solution provided: Don’t unset $tcnumcaps before extended pass

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

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Originally requested by Peter Berends

1.0.8a did accept some ISOs with mplayer but not others

Replace with pure bash or perl/awk

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Originally requested by Phil Grundig

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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

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

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Complete manpage.

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Originally reported by Markus and Wade

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

Safe length measuring creates extra temporary directories that aren’t removed properly

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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

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

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As found in mtn.

Try to avoid capturing mostly-blank frames.

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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
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Currently the extended set always contains the standard captures. It might be nice to add some time-shift to them so that they’re different.

See also  FS#122