vcs

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.

Originally reported by Dougn Redhammer

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.

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

Even though they’re ignored, it might fail on some files. May be due to the 5 frames hack.

Originally requested by Daniel

Originally requested by Daniel

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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.

Workaround introduced in 1.0.7a, needs refinement

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“Failed to capture frame (at second xxx.yyy)”

Known bug, reported by various users.

Replace with pure bash or perl/awk

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Originally requested by Phil Grundig

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

Complete manpage.

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
...

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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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.

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

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