VCS 1.13.4 released
Prompted by a couple reports, here's a new bugfix release of VCS. It most importantly fixes an incompatibility with Bash 5.0 which made the script put all the captures in a single row.
A couple minor bugs are also fixed, where using mawk would produce some errors and print the wrong file sizes, and the evasion offsets (which are used to avoid blank screengrabs) weren't really being used.
See the full changelog for more details.
- vcs 1.13.4
- vcs-1.13.4.gz (script only)
or
vcs-1.13.4.tar.gz (script, sample configuration, manpage and profiles) - deb, rpm, PKGBUILD & xz
- as usual at p.outlyer.net/vcs
I appreciate it, Thank you so much!!
I was looking for a similar tool for some time.
I had to modify it a bit according to my needs.
It was easy with almost zero BASH knowledge as the script is very well-organized.
Thank you, tip granted!
Thank you! I did my best to keep it organized and documented since it's a fairly complex and big script, I'm glad that was useful for someone else. If you think your modifications can be of use to others I'm always open to suggestions and patches.
Hello Toni,
sorry i just saw your reply now. 🙁
I modified script behavior if output file exists.
I use another bash script to invoke VCS for every video file on a folder recursively and for me it was handy to add an option to keep already existing output to reduce overall runtime.
I send you the modified script via e-mail and you can decide if it is useful or not.
Also i failed to find out where to add jpeg quality settings to reduce jpeg output sheet size. I think this feature would be useful as well.
Thank you again for this great – and free – tool! 🙂
Thank your for your suggestion and submission.
As for JPEG quality, while there's no specific command-line option to set it, it can be set through command-line overrides or configuration files (see https://p.outlyer.net/vcs/docs/conf_files)
To set it from the command-line use, e.g.:
$ vcs -O quality=85 …
Wow, i did not notice this feature. Thank you for quick response! :bow: