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List of known bugs and requested features

Notes:

  • The IDs in this list are only used for internal reference in this wiki.
    • They aren't fully consecutive, the first half is bumped with each release (minors, not micro, in accordance with the revised numbering), the second half re-starts at 1 with each release and increases with each bug reported/found.
  • Since I use no formal bugtracking system some older bugs will be missing.
ID Type Status Version1) Submitter Date Description
#1010 FEAT OPEN 1.0.100a - - Accept percentages in --from and --to.
#1009 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - - Accept percentages as height.
#0907 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - - Tag feedback when colour is not available.
#0906 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - - Colourised console output doesn't work on FreeBSD.
#1008 BUG SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-26 Timestamps font is not used.
#1007 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-25 Drop sed -r/sed -E detection. Replaced by awk.
#1006 BUG SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-25 In-file aspect ratio is ignored
#1005 BUG OPEN 1.0.100a - 2010-02-25 Heading bleeds into left side of contact sheet when title is too long for width
#0004 BUG OPEN 1.0a - - Meta-information gets overlapped with small contact sheet
#0806 BUG WIP 1.0.12 various - Failure to get last capture, specially in WMVs.
#0305 FEAT WIP - - - Should honour system fonts ($ convert -list font); should pick better and fall back as required
#1004 BUG SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-24 Italics/unstyled font in timestamps is inconsistent across different systems
#1003 BUG SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-23 -t doesn't accept the usual timecode format
#1002 BUG SVNFIXED 1.0.100a - 2010-02-22 Passing ms to mplayer, although ignored, might fail on the last frame capture
#1001 BUG MUSTREPR 1.0.100a Tomasz Strózik 2009-12-15 Running vcs from a find … -exec fails on WMVs, but the same command-line works from the shell
* GNU find at least runs the command for each argument (instead of a single execution)
#0905 FEAT SVNFIXED - - - Drop seq/jot.
#0904 FEAT WIP - - 2009-16-03 Add profiles support
   * (2010-02-22) Merge with funky modes?
#0901 SVNFIXED WIP - - - Support FreeBSD. Experimental support in place since 1.0.100a, still not on par with Linux. See posix
#0610 FEAT SVNFIXED - - - Reject older versions of bash.
#0503 FEAT WIP - Peter Berends 2007-06-04 Support ISOs. Worked with some. 1.0.99 introduced official experimental support through the DVD mode.
#0504 FEAT WIP - - 2007-06-05 DVD Support. Initial experimental support added in 1.0.99
#0607 FEAT OPEN - Phil Grundig 2008-02-10 Add transcode as a possible capturer. See transcode.
#0606 FEAT SVNFIXED - Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 Drop bc in favor of awk or perl
#0605 BUG NOTREPR 1.0.10 Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 mplayer (1.0pre8cvs) prints minutes as hours in the thumbnails
#0604 BUG MUSTREPR 1.0.10 Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 ffmpeg (CVS-060515) can't take file names with spaces
#0513 FEAT ? 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Optionally disable fancyness.
#0513.2 FEAT OPEN 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Optionally disable padding.
#0002 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0 - - Allow setting output filename
#0515 FEAT OPEN 2) 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Allow review of screenshots before composing.
#0002 FEAT OPEN 1.0a - - Image-input mode.
#0309 FEAT SVNFIXED 1.0.4b - - Make FFmpeg optional. Initially discarded since it usually worked better than mplayer. Current vcs fares better.
#0516 FEAT OPEN 1.0.9a - - Allow manually setting padding.
#0517 FEAT OPEN 1.0.9a Dougn Redhammer 2007-07-10 Allow setting text outlines (IM's -stroke/-strokewidth).
#0519 BUG OPEN 1.0.9a Dougn Redhammer 2007-07-10 Setting font too big cut text of meta-information and footer.
#0405 BUG OPEN 1.0.6b - - Filenames in non-latin scripts get printed incorrectly. Workaround introduced in 1.0.7a, needs more work
#0408 3) BUG MUSTREPR 1.0.6b - - Fails on some files (gets stuck forever while capturing the first frame). Happens often with Matroska. 1.0.7a introduced a workaround (-Wo) with ffmpeg's argument order that worked with other file types.
FIXED
#0903 BUG FIXED 1.0.99 - - Required programs should be checked before going further. Fixed in 1.0.100a
#0902 BUG FIXED 1.0.99 - - VCS fails if tput can't change colours. Fixed in 1.0.100a
#0807 BUG FIXED 1.0.12 - - Number of audio channels = 0. Appears to happen in non-x86 systems. Workaround since 1.0.99. Otherwise use ia32 mplayer (i.e. only amd64 and i386 have an extra chance to fix this)
#0805 FEAT FIXED 1.0.12 - - Fallback to ffmpeg if appropriate to better detect media features. Added in 1.0.99
#0506 BUG FIXED 1.0.12 Aleksandar Urošević 2007-06-11 Polaroid mode overlaps all images in the same position. Formerly unreproducible. Fixed in 1.0.99
#0804 FEAT FIXED 1.0.12 - - Adjust timestamp size with smaller captures. Fixed in 1.0.99
#0803 BUG FIXED 1.0.12 - - Re-add missing space after filename. Fixed in 1.0.99
#0802 FEAT FIXED 1.0.12 - - Polaroid frame should look more like a polaroid (add extra space to mimic labelling space). Added in 1.0.99
#0801 FEAT FIXED 1.0.12 - - Add support for JPEG2000 output. Added in 1.0.99
#0704 BUG FIXED 1.0.11 - - Parsing of manual timestamps with milliseconds multiplies seconds by 10 when no s character is used. Fixed in 1.0.12
#0703 BUGR FIXED 1.0.11 - - Extra padding added by IM to highlights. Fixed in 1.0.12
#0702 BUG FIXED 1.0.11 - - Incorrect count of captures in manual-only mode (-m). Fixed in 1.0.12
#0701 BUG FIXED 1.0.11 - - Incorrect 0ms timestamps. Fixed in 1.0.12
#0609 4) BUG FIXED 1.0.10 Chris Hills 2008-04-07 Extended-set captures (-e) don't align with standard-set. Fixed in 1.0.11
#0608 BUG FIXED 1.0.10 Chris Hills 2008-04-07 Typo in variable name breaks main mode selection (numcaps/interval) in user config. Fixed in 1.0.11
#0603 BUG FIXED 1.0.10 Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 All-equal captures with mplayer can be avoid with a workaround. Known mplayer issue. Fixed in 1.0.11
#0602 BUG FIXED 1.0.10 Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 Older bash not compatible with the array syntax in use. Fixed in 1.0.11. See old_bash
#0601 BUG FIXED 1.0.10 Phil Grundig 2008-02-02 With mplayer as capturer milliseconds are meaningless. Fixed in 1.0.11
#0515 BUG FIXED 1.0.9a - - Padding needs adjusting. (Believed to be) fixed in 1.0.11, refined further in 1.0.99
#0514 BUG NOTBUG 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Manual captures get added to count. Not a bug, but a feature.
#0513.1 FEAT FIXED 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Optionally disable shadows. Added in 1.0.10
#0513.3 FEAT WONTFIX 1.0.9a Daniel 2007-07-14 Don't use ms in timestamps. Decoder selection somewhat covers this.
#0512 BUG FIXED 1.0.9a Marco Liguorini 2007-07-09 Failure to cleanup with multiple files leads to clash on temporary files. (Believed to be) Fixed in 1.0.10
#0511 BUG FIXED 1.0.9a Marco Liguorini
Dougn Redhammer
2007-07-09 Wrong captures count with multiple files. Fixed in 1.0.11
#0510 FEAT FIXED 1.0.9a Dougn Redhammer 2007-06-26 Adjust timestamps size to capture size. (Experimentally) added in 1.0.99
#0509 FEAT FIXED 1.0.9a Dougn Redhammer
Daniel
2007-06-26 Optionally disable timestamps. Added in 1.0.10
#0508 BUG FIXED 1.0.8a - - Aspect ratio guessing fails if height is non-standard. Fixed in 1.0.10
#0507 BUG FIXED 1.0.8a - - Extended mode uses global number of columns. Fixed in 1.0.9a
#0505 BUGR FIXED 1.0.8a Aleksandar Urošević 2007-06-10 Broken extended mode. Fixed in 1.0.9a
#0502 BUG FIXED 1.0.7a Homer S 2007-06-01 -c was ignored when not used with -n. Fixed in 1.0.8a
#0501 BUG FIXED 1.0.7a Dougn Redhammer 2007-05-30 Right side of header ignored user-set colour. Fixed in 1.0.8a
#0407 BUG FIXED 1.0.6b - - Requested colours are not used. Fixed in 1.0.7a
#0406 FEAT FIXED 1.0.6b - - Allow disabling “created by” line. Added in 1.0.7a
#0405 FEAT FIXED 1.0.6b - - Support ms in time strings. Added in 1.0.7a
#0404 BUG FIXED 1.0.6b - - Accepted interval characters regex is too loose. Fixed in 1.0.7a
#0403 BUG FIXED 1.0.6b - - Console colours are printed to the wrong channel. Fixed in 1.0.7a
#0402 BUG FIXED 1.0.6b - - safe_rename() assumes current dir. mv requires --. Fixed in 1.0.7a
#0401 BUG FIXED 1.0.5b o kapi 2007-04-21 tempfile is not portable. Use mktemp instead. Fixed in 1.0.6b
#0309 FEAT WONTFIX 1.0.4b - - Discard mplayer as a capturer. It's commonplace and preferable in some cases.
#0308 FEAT FIXED 1.0.4b - - Allow command-line overrides (changing internal variables from the command-line). Added in 1.0.5b
#0307 FEAT FIXED 1.0.4b - - Add extra set of captures. Extended mode added in 1.0.5b
#0306 FEAT FIXED 1.0.4b - - Allow highlighting individual captures. Highlight mode added in 1.0.5b
#0304 BUG FIXED 1.0.4b - - -n0 shouldn't be accepted. Fixed in 1.0.5b
#0303 FEAT FIXED 1.0.4b - - Quiet mode. Added in 1.0.5b
#0302 BUGR FIXED 1.0.4b - - Handle interval longer than video. Fixed in 1.0.5b
#0301 FEAT FIXED 1.0.4b - - Print all failed requirements. Added in 1.0.5b
#0205 FEAT FIXED 1.0.3b - - Support for per-dir and system-wide config files. Added in 1.0.4b
#0204 BUG FIXED 1.0.3b - - Incorrect error-checking of tempdir creation. Fixed in 1.0.4b
#0203 BUG FIXED 1.0.3b Alon Levy 2007-04-14 Temporary files are put in $PWD. Might fail with virtual file systems like sshfs. Fixed in 1.0.4b
#0202 BUG FIXED 1.0.3b - - Incorrect number of captures printed to console. Fixed in 1.0.4b
#0201 BUG FIXED 1.0.2b - - Full path being printed in heading. Fixed in 1.0.3b
#0102 BUF FIXED 1.0.1a - - Temporary files are not removed when interrupted. Fixed in 1.0.2b
#0101 BUGR FIXED 1.0.1a - - Broken program signature. Fixed in 1.0.2b
#0005 FEAT WONTFIX 1.0a - - Allow overriding default command-line. The configuration/overrides system is superior although less compact.
#0003 FEAT FIXED 1.0a - - Allow more complex human readable timestamps (e.g. 4m30s). Added in 1.0.1a
#0001 BUG FIXED 1.0a - - Timestamps can be repeated. Fixed in 1.0.1a

Legend:

ALL Applicable to all versions
BUG Bug
BUGR Regression bug
FIXED Fixed/Added
FEAT Feature request
MUSTREPR Not yet reproduced (but expected to be reproducible)
NOTBUG Reported as bug, but actually a feature or trait of vcs
NOTREPR Can't reproduce
OPEN Open bug/pending implementation
SVNFIXED Fixed/Added in the next (unreleased) version 5)
WIP Work in progress
1)
This is the current version as of the bug reporting
2)
Probably WONTFIX
3)
FIXME Still open?
4)
FIXME Still a problem for funky modes and smaller captures? See http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/files/CHANGELOG
5)
Note the SVN reprository is not public so there's no access to the next version until released. You can however request a copy of the latest snapshot and I'll happily send it :-).
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