diascope: news

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  • April 30th, 2016
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2.1e is out.
    • Updated ffmpeg syntax for mpeg4 export
    • Updated installer
    • Note for users of Debian Linux or derived systems such as Ubuntu: you must install the GNU awk interpreter (gawk) for diascope to work.
  • January 2nd, 2015
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2.1d is out.
    • Updated ImageMagick syntax
    • Note for users of Debian Linux or derived systems such as Ubuntu: you must install the GNU awk interpreter (gawk) for diascope to work.
  • August 18th, 2014
  • March 10th, 2012
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2.1b is out.
    • Updated ffmpeg and ImageMagick syntax
  • February 4th, 2011
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2.1a is out.
    • Updated ffmpeg syntax for interlaced encoding and aspect ratio
  • September 10th, 2010
    • Created a section for contributed code. The first entry is dia_gen by Marco Jack.
  • July 7th, 2010
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2.1 is out.
    • Some internal changes for newer gawk versions
    • Removed setting of $MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT as it causes ImageMagick to crash
    • Added copy option to sequ action
  • September 1st, 2009
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2b is out.
    • Resources package updated
    • New install.sh script, sets correct gawk shebang
    • Should work on Ubuntu 9.04
    • Sequ effect can now be rendered interlaced, weave mask generation speed improved
  • March 28th, 2009
    • Maintenance release diascope 0.2a is out.
    • Now works with sox 14
  • July 4th, 2008
    • Created a section for related stuff.
    • Added pimpmymenu, which is a small script to animate dvd menus generated by dvdstyler.
  • May 23rd 2008
    • Updated usage information and added a little FAQ section.
  • May 13th 2008
    • New stable version Diascope 0.2 released.
    • Added fix to allow parsing of DOS format files (CR/LF)
    • Slideshow description file need not be in present directory anymore
    • Fall-back to default font if specified font is not installed
    • Changed compilation instructions for ppmfilter
    • Accepts off-the-shelf ppmfilter without luma roll-effect
  • Mar 02nd 2008
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-5 released. This is a beta release.
    • Diascope goes multi-core: parallel execution accelerates the processing (well, slightly)
    • New action: blurring images in and out.
    • For some ImageMagick versions the built-in luma transitions may have been disfunctional for a while due to a bug in the -fx operator.
      This has been fixed.
    • Diascope now tested with ImageMagick 6.2.3, 6.3.0 and 6.3.5.
    • Diascope now tested with sox 13.0.0
    • Updated resources package to demonstrate new features.
  • December 02nd 2007
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-4a released. This is a beta release.
    • Codec names and bits of the ffmpeg command line syntax had changed. This fix updates diascope to use the new syntax (tested against FFmpeg SVN-r10865).
  • June 24th 2007
    • With diascope 0.2 approaching, your feedback on the current beta-4 is more than appreciated. Diascope was developed under openSUSE. Reports on success or failure on other distributions would be great.
    • Thanks for using the new diascope-user mailing list to share your comments.
  • June 10th 2007
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-4 released. This is a beta release.
    • New title generator allows moving titles and image overlays.
    • Create action now accepts colour gradients.
    • Aspect ratio encoding for square pixels (flv) corrected.
    • Diascope now tested with ImageMagick 6.2.3 and 6.3.0.
    • Updated installation instructions and added basic luma files package.
    • Updated resources package to demonstrate new features.
    • Several bugs fixed. New bugs introduced (for sure :-)
  • May 4th, 2007
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-3 released. This is a beta release.
    • Audio option for volume adjustment introduced.
    • Audio conversion now done using ffmpeg to ease the inclusion of popular audio file formats.
    • Combination of ppmtoy4m and ffmpeg used for straight pal and ntsc encoding.
    • Improved the description file parser to capture more syntax errors upfront.
    • Clean-up and several minor bug fixes.
  • Apr 20th 2007
  • Apr 08th 2007
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-2 released. This is a beta release.
    • Pan and zoom path plots visualise the specified path. Not quite a GUI yet but useful indeed.
    • User control over the new recycling mode (forward or backward comparison).
    • Speed-up of field weaving for interlaced pan and zoom.
    • Fixed several bugs in the new recycling mode.
    • Fixed bug in audio recycling introduced in the beta-1 release.
  • Mar 30th 2007
    • Diascope 0.2-beta-1a released. This is a beta release.
    • Fixed bug in new recycle mode that was introduced in the beta-1 release.
    • New recycle mode handles insertions and deletions to avoid redundant rendering of actions.
    • Artifical limit of 99 actions removed.
    • Fixed ugly title rendering when stroke=0.
  • Jan 29th 2007
    • Diascope 0.1.2 released
    • New sequence action to import externally generated frames
    • Default (full image) and percentage crop specifications introduced
  • Jan 13th 2007
  • Dec 06th 2006
    • Diascope 0.1 released
    • This version has a bug in the encoding of interlaced pan and zoom