v2024.8.2

Fixed

• CLI application functioning on non-Windows platforms

Two previous releases were yanked 🔥😱

v2024.8.1 YANKED

Fixed

• New task window: alpha blending of images with transparent backgrounds.
• Settings dialog: auto-closing on blur.
• Add folder dialog: it starts from the parent folder of the last added one.
• Command copy button (still wrong with line feeds).

Changed

• Now FPS is a number input (1-60), not a drop-down list.

v2024.8.0 YANKED

Added

• GUI application written in Tkinter. You can run it like this: catmanager
• System option --live-preview (GUI related; it is unlikely you will ever want to use it).

Changed

• The WARN overlay becomes optional. These warnings embedded in the video stream are quite useless for casual users who run the script manually, and whose data is not related to CCTV. #26

Fixed

• We have eliminated network-related delays on some platforms (mostly Windows) by switching to pipes. Now the script writes uncompressed stream of pixels to the FFmpeg standard input. Thus, on some systems, the execution was accelerated three times. #19

Removed

• Web server. Now the port settings are deprecated and do not affect anything. In addition, firewall warnings will no longer appear.

v2024.4.0

Some things in the source code have been renamed, and some comments have been translated into English.

v2024.3.1

Fixed

• WSGIServer shutdown

v2024.3.0

Changed

• I preload frames in a separate thread. It's about 15 percent faster.
• Using other VP9 options results in slightly larger files, but 1.5–2 times faster. So, so far there is not much difference between using MP4 and WebM here.

v2024.2.0

Changed

• Destination file name is allowed (ignored) with option --resolutions (#14)
• No subsampling in high quality mode; moderate subsampling in medium quality mode (#17)

Added

• QOI and PCX input image formats (#12)

Removed

• Options --trim-start and --trim-end (#13)

v2023.9.1

Fixed

• An error in the resolution resolving algorithm, leading to division by zero in the presence of odd frame sizes due to incorrect use of rounded (to even) size.

v2023.9.0

Changed

• Versions, although they look like dates, now almost do not contradict semantic versioning: there is no leading zero in months, and the last number means the patch number.
• The video resolution resolving algorithm copes better with controversial situations.

Added

• The ability to set the range of allowed ports (-p min:max).
• The ability to make videos even from empty or non-existent folders (--sure).