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

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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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GNU getopt is quite a requirement for non-GNU userlands. If at all possible replace with something else.

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

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).

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' ]]

Submitted by Eris Belew

Unquotted grep pattern ^ID is problematic.

Patch submitted.

Submitted by Eris Belew

Guidelines for the PKGBUILD script have changed.

Submitted updated PKGBUILD.

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

As found in mtn.

Try to avoid capturing mostly-blank frames.

As reported by Dirk Reiners (paraphrased)

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

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

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.

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

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

i.e.

interval=5m

MIN_LENGTH_FOR_END_OFFSET was deprecated in 1.11 and will be ignored starting with 1.12.

The new behaviour is to apply by default a small end offset always, based on the video length. Users will be able to disable this with either -E0 or config option end_offset=0

With the introduction of profiles vcs will need directories to place them.

Using vcs-nix might be safer since vcs is too short and too meaningful (Version Control System) to hijack it safely.

Candidates:

• Site-wide: /usr/share/vcs/profiles, /usr/local/share/vcs/profiles/
• User-local: ~/.vcs/profiles/

With the introduction of ~/.vcs/ (or ~/.vcs-nix/) it makes sense moving local configurations there. The older ~/.vcs.conf will still be accepted.

Load order:

1. /etc/vcs.conf
2. ~/.vcs.conf
3. ~/.vcs/vcs.conf
4. ./vcs.conf

shoehorn is most probably no longer needed (or even working) with the complexity vcs has gained over time

–mincho was replaced with –nonlatin in 1.11