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VCS working on FreeBSD

As I wrote on the last update, I've been working on making vcs work on FreeBSD (and hopefully other non-GNU systems), there were quite a few problems that made it unusable outside GNU variants, but it's already working. Sort of: There's still some wrong details: Like instead of or instead of But that's definitely better […]

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VCS Beyond Linux

Before the next release I'd like to make VCS work better in other OSes beyond Linux. Linux is my (current at least) OS of choice and the one I'm not familiar with so it's also obviously the OS in which I develop and test VCS. Thanks to virtualisation gaining a lot of momentum I'm now […]

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VCS 1.0.99 released

New version released, finally implementing DVD support (both ISO and DVD devices should work). Also JPEG 2000 output, a more Polaroid™-like polaroid mode 😉 (the older one has been renamed to photos); the timestamp is now reduced for smaller captures plus the usual batch of fixes/tweaks. DVDs Capturing from DVDs is a bit tricky, the […]

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Script: man2ps, man2pdf, man2evince

Usage: $ man2ps command will generate a PostScript (.ps) file from command's manpage Symlink or copy this script as "man2pdf" to create a PDF from a manpage. Symlink or copy this script as "man2evince" to call evince on a temporary PDF of the manpage #!/bin/bash # man2ps, (c) 2004,2005,2006,2009 Toni Corvera, published under a BSD […]

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VCS update 2008-04-16: 1.0.12 released

New version released, it fixes highlights, which were broken in the last version and a couple of long-standing cosmetic bugs. Also now requires minimum length before using the "end offset" i.e.: will only ignore a bit off the end of the video if it's long enough, by default 19'30" (the default value was chosen based […]

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VCS update 2008-04-08: 1.0.11 released

New version released with a couple fixes and cosmetic touches. Fixes include a workaround for cases in which mplayer outputted all-black (or all-equal) captures. Also slightly better support for older/tighter systems (e.g. Damn Small Linux). Most notably in the cosmetic side is better thumbnail alignment in extended mode (-e), slightly less padded captures and drop […]

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Script: video identification (Bash)

This script displays mplayer's information/identification lines of a multimedia file. Nowadays I prefer to use an undocumented feature of vcs (see below) #!/bin/bash # This script displays mplayer's information/identification lines of a multimedia file # Put in the public domain. <http://w.corvera.eu/2007/11/shell-vidid/> vididf() { mplayer -identify -frames 0 -ao null -vo null "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep […]

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VCS update 2007-11-08: 1.0.10 released

New version released wth a bugfix and a couple new features: allow disabling timestamps and/or shadows. See the changelog below. I've also published a bit of information on the future of VCS and comments would be very welcome (in short, most probably, I'll be rewriting it in a different language than bash). Finally, I'm moving […]

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VCS OOP Rewrite?

Note: VCS stands for Video Contact Sheet *NIX, visit http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/ for details. Abstract I'm considering an alternative language in which to rewrite VCS. It must support OOP well enough and be relatively common-place. Current candidates are Java, Python and PHP5. Comments/suggestions/preferences are welcome, either here or by mail (outlyer@gmail.com) (but leave alone language hatred/fandom!). VCS […]

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VCS update 2007-06-26: Tips

I've added a tips section to the project's page where I'll write any useful tip I might come up with. As usual contributions are welcome.

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