nautilus-follow-symlink/caja-follow-symlink 1.2.1 released

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I've just published an updated nautilus-follow-symlink/caja-follow-symlink.

After more than a decade I'm updating this little project as my guinea pig for my conversion of older projects to git. It was no longer compiling with current versions of GCC so that I made a couple changes to get it working again.

You can download the updated version as usually at http://p.outlyer.net/nautilus-follow-symlink.
Can be downloaded as a source tarball or a pre-built binary for Debian Stable (amd64).

Besides the tarballs, the source is available at my new git repository and at GitHub:

vcs-creator: A GUI for vcs, by tudo75

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This escaped my attention, but a user by the name of tudo75 left a comment mentioning they have created a cool GUI for vcs, in case you want to check it out. I haven't checked it thoroughly but it seems useful.

vcs-creator, Small gui for the VCS (Video Contact Sheet *NIX) script: https://github.com/tudo75/vcs-creator

Relevation 1.3.1 released

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A small update to Relevation, to ease usage on contemporary systems it's now running on Python 3. Hopefully I didn't break it since I'm not used to Python 3.

No other big changes, just some internal ones.

Relevation 1.3.1
https://p.outlyer.net/files/relevation/relevation-1.3.1.tar.gz
or
https://p.outlyer.net/files/relevation/relevation-1.3.1.zip (zip includes PDF and HTML manpage)
pre-packaged
https://p.outlyer.net/files/relevation/relevation_1.3.1-pon.1_all.deb

Debian users can use my apt repository located at http://packages.outlyer.net. Instructions are provided there.

VCS 1.13.4 released

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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

📌 Hiatus (updated in April 2024)

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NOTE this post is pinned, it's not the most recent one.

Due to real life issues I took a long hiatus starting in September 2019 and extending so far into 2024, during which I'm having very little time to spend on any personal project (though occasionally updating them, and still reachable by email).

I'll look into reported bugs and fix them ASAP, but I won't able to do much more than that for the time being.

VCS 1.13.3 released

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The latest version of VCS is available to download.
It's been a good while since the last release, but there aren't a lot of changes this time around, apart from the usual bugfixes there's better handling of errors and unsupported files.

The most important bug fixed is obviously the one I already previewed some days ago. The header was being cropped with current-day ImageMagick, and that problem should be gone.

See the full changelog for more details.

vcs 1.13.3
vcs-1.13.3.gz (script only)
or
vcs-1.13.3.tar.gz (script, sample configuration, manpage and profiles)
deb, rpm, PKGBUILD & xz
as usual at p.outlyer.net/vcs

Quick fix for cropped media info in VCS

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Just a quick note for those encountering this bug where the codec information is misaligned and cropped, you can download a pre-release of the next version now. There's a couple more bugfixes and minor changes, and hopefully not much breakage.

This issue has been there for months (first pointed out, together with the fix, by Markus), but I haven't gotten the time to look into it until now, sorry to anyone affected.

Cropped media info box
Cropped media info box

Fixed media info box
Fixed media info box

You can grab the script from https://p.outlyer.net/vcs/files/pre-RELEASES/vcs-1.13.3-pre.2.bash.

Unofficial Ruby version of VCS

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For anyone interested, Thomas has contacted me to let me know he wrote a "Video Contact Sheet Ruby" which reuses part of VCS' code and outputs contact sheets in the same style.
Being written in Ruby, its code will be less of a mess and, even more interestingly, it can run on Windows with less hackery than VCS.

So you're invited to take a look at his project at https://github.com/FreeApophis/vcs.rb.

Relevation 1.3 released

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I've just published an updated version of Relevation.

The main addition is support for the newer format of data files used by Revelation, plus a slightly better handling of international characters in the data file.

This is, however, a somewhat rushed and unpolished release to support the newer file format as soon as ready. As a result running the script in Windows is now harder, untested and most likely broken.
I plan to update it ASAP.

Relevation 1.3

http://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation-1.3.tar.gz
or
http://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation-1.3.zip (zip includes PDF and HTML manpage)

pre-packaged
http://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation_1.3-pon.1_all.deb

Debian users can use my apt repository located at http://packages.outlyer.net. Instructions are provided there.

VCS 1.13.2 released

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A new update of VCS with a couple bugfixes is available to download. Once again, if you had problems with the previous versions there's nothing new.

It fixes a bug when using MPlayer as capturer that could produce one more capture than expected. Thanks to Miya for reporting it.

See the full changelog for more details.

vcs 1.13.2
http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/files/vcs-1.13.2.gz (script only)
or
http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/files/vcs-1.13.2.tar.gz (script, sample configuration, manpage and profiles)
deb, rpm, PKGBUILD & bz2
as usual at http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/
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