vcs

Use mktemp instead.

Originally reported by “o kapi”

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
...

Originally reported by Markus and Wade

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

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

Only basename should be printed instead.

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

Originally reported by Chris Hills

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

Known bug, reported by various users.

E.g. on FreeBSD

pyth_th() uses **, accepted by gawk but not mawk

Also Ubuntu uses mawk by default.

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

As reported by Dirk Reiners (paraphrased)

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

Seen in HEVC contained in MPEG-TS

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Originally reported by Dougn Redhammer

Some override-able variables were renamed silently in 1.11

DEFAULT_COLS ⇒ cols
DEFAULT_INTERVAL ⇒ interval
DEFAULT_NUMCAPS ⇒ numcaps

Symbolic font names don’t work since IM won’t know about TTF fonts.

Probably affects other systems too.

No need for description

Internal: Stale code from prior versions, numsecs inside process() uses mplayer’s value instead of the best value to determine video length (and keep or discard timestamps).

As a side-effect, newer code being more strict about array vs string handling can fail easily.