What's new in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.13.2

Jan 15, 2015
  • Fix for sheets with MPlayer as capturer containing one extra capture.

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.13 (Dec 12, 2013)

  • Blank frame avoidance
  • Automatic profile loading from configuration
  • New 'compact' profile
  • Bugfix: FreeBSD support restored
  • Other fixes

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.12.3 (Jul 19, 2011)

  • This version actually handles --ffmpeg and --mplayer.
  • It has correct parsing of -U. Switched to a minimum of bash 3.1.
  • Avoids re-capturing the same frame twice; Uses getent instead of /etc/passwd when available.
  • It will not use mplayer's length as a ceiling for timecode removal.

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.12.2 (Aug 25, 2010)

  • Profiles
  • On-demand loading of custom configuration files
  • Heading, footer and title based on actual font size
  • Configuration generation from the command-line
  • Relative end-offset
  • Reworked command-line to capture from DVD
  • Configuration syntax enhancements and more sensible names for settings
  • Other fixes

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.12 (Apr 11, 2010)

  • Profiles
  • On-demand loading of custom configuration files
  • Heading, footer and title based on actual font size
  • Configuration generation from the command-line
  • Relative end-offset
  • Reworked command-line to capture from DVD
  • Configuration syntax enhancements and more sensible names for settings
  • Other fixes

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.11.2 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • Added Cook and Sipro (RealAudio 4, 5 & 6) codecs
  • BUGFIXES:
  • Remove extra, empty, temporary dir
  • Use standard awk syntax for exponentiation (pyth_th)
  • Workaround for systems that don't register fonts with ImageMagick
  • DEBUG: Print to stderr when probbing with mplayer too

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.11.1 (Mar 11, 2010)

  • Added FLV1 codec
  • BUGFIXES:
  • Deprecate DEFAULT_INTERVAL, DEFAULT_NUMCAPS and DEFAULT_COLS as
  • overrides, warn about their new names (interval, numcaps and cols)
  • Fix ImageMagick version detection

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.11 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Fix/Workarounds for failure on last capture
  • Height can be defined as a percentage (-H 25%) or set configuration files (th_height=160)
  • Output filename can now be set manually (-o file)
  • Lots of small cosmetic tweaks, from default font and heading background, to tighter padding or smaller timestamps. And the ability to tweak or disable padding.
  • Support for DVD has been revamped and should work much better now.
  • FreeBSD users are now (mostly) first class citizens for vcs ;-)
  • More concise --help output, added --fullhelp for the whole bore
  • Handling of non-latin filenames makes a lot more sense now
  • And last but not least, the usual lot of bugfixes, better detection of video features, better aspect ratio detection, new codec names, etc.

New in Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.0.99 (Mar 12, 2009)

  • Experimental support for DVDs (-V).
  • JPEG 2000 output format (-j2).
  • Polaroid mode has been renamed to photos mode, and polaroid and polaroidframe modes have been introduced.
  • There are slight adjustments in the timestamp size based on capture size.
  • There is better detection of video frame rate (no more 1.000 FPS, in theory) and audio channels number by using ffmpeg.
  • Overlap mode putting all images on the same location (possibly only with newer versions of ImageMagick) has been fixed.