vcs

Some override-able variables were renamed silently in 1.11

DEFAULT_COLS ⇒ cols
DEFAULT_INTERVAL ⇒ interval
DEFAULT_NUMCAPS ⇒ numcaps

E.g. on FreeBSD

Submitted by Eris Belew

Unquotted grep pattern ^ID is problematic.

Patch submitted.

As reported by Dirk Reiners (paraphrased)

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

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Parsing of manual timestamps with milliseconds multiplies seconds by 10 when no s character is used

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Might fail with virtual file systems, like sshfs, which don’t implement certain features (like links)

E.g. with CTRL+C

Use mktemp instead.

Originally reported by “o kapi”

Originally reported by Phil Grundig

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.

Newer IM appears to use recognise system fonts by default. Using some common-place good looking font like DejaVu would be preferable.

It’s supposed to fail silently, at least accordingly to http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/#fonts but on my system it prints an error. Probably not worth supressing

/etc/vcs.conf and ./vcs.conf in addition to ~/.vcs.conf

See http://p.outlyer.net/dox/vcs:time_syntax

jot is its equivalent

No need for description

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safe_rename() (incorrectly) strips path from the output file

Originally reported by Dougn Redhammer

No need for description

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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

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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