almyu/chronolapse

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chronolapse's Issues

Does not run on Windows XP

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Chronolapse
2. Double-click chronolapse.exe

What is the expected output?
Chronolapse GUI is launched

What do you see instead?
An empty console window with 'chronolapse.exe' as its title.

What version of the product are you using?
1.0.1

On what operating system?
Windows XP

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:22

1.0.8 RC1 - won't encode timelapse - mencoder quits

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.mencoder quits on any codec selected to create timelapse
v1.0.7 works just fine

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
video file. mencoder quits.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.8 RC1 (win)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 Jun 2011 at 7:35

"Force Capture" Hotkey

Optional key binding to take a capture.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Dec 2010 at 12:50

Encoding audio crashes with no spaces in video name

Used string.index instead of string.find for spaces, causing audio encoding to 
fail when no spaces were found in the video filename.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 May 2011 at 11:20

Multiple Cams at Once

Support for multiple cams running at once

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Aug 2011 at 11:31

Rotate images

For practical reasons, I have attached my webcam sideways to the wall with
masking tape. This of course results in the pictures all being sideways
also, so I would need a function to rotate them all by 90 degrees
clockwise. This feature could probably be added to the resize-tab.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Aug 2009 at 10:12

Timer

A timer would be a nice feature to have, so that I could program
Chronolapse to start recording at a certain time and stop at another
automatically. This would be nice for Ludum Dare competitions for example.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Aug 2009 at 10:13

1.0.8 RC1 for Windows does not detect my webcam

1.0.8 RC1 for Windows says "No webcam found on your system" even though a 
webcam is attached.  1.0.7 detects and uses the webcam fine.

Could this be due to the change to OpenCV?  I have seen issues where OpenCV 
silently fails if a .dll is not included with the program, so that may be worth 
looking into.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Jul 2011 at 10:46

Video output error

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Find or create a folder to create a video from
2. Pick a folder with a path including a space to send video to
3. Create the video

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect the video to appear in "C:/downloads/games/ludum 
dare/chronolapse/capture-test". Instead I get an error message "could not 
find file 'Dare/chronolapse/capture-test/'".

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

I'm using the first version, on a Windows XP Pro machine.

Please provide any additional information below.

I believe this is caused by appending the path to mencode (or whatever it's 
called) so the command line looks like this:

mencode.exe C:/downloads/games/ludum dare/chronolapse/capture-test

When it should be grouped like:

mencode.exe "C:/downloads/games/ludum dare/chronolapse/capture-test"

Don't forget to check if the user has already added quotes.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 25 Sep 2008 at 10:28

Height Setting not working as expected

Windows 7 64 bit

The "Height" setting I am assuming is intended to be the height in pixels of 
the region, measured from the top of the region to the bottom of it. I may be 
mistaken, but from what I had to set it to for my intended region, it seems to 
be more like the distance to the bottom of the region measured from the top of 
the screen.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Mar 2012 at 8:58

Force Capture uses last scheduled settings instead of current UI settings

On the main box: I tried the "Force Capture" a few times during my setup tests. 
It seems that the configuration used by "Force Capture" is not necessarily the 
current settings, but rather the settings used in the last scheduled capture 
triggered using "Start Capture". I noticed during my setup trials that as I 
made changes to the region limit settings they did not seem to change anything 
with "Force Capture", but did make a difference when I used "Start Capture" and 
waited for a scheduled capture.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Mar 2012 at 9:00

no webcam found on your system

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.check the box for webcam
2.configure
3.no webcam found on your system


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

its says no webcam found on your system
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.8

Please provide any additional information below.
no webcam found on your system

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Apr 2012 at 10:07

Cannot select video capture source

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Run ChronoLapse
2.Select "Capture" Tab
3.Select "Configure" button for Webcam

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Instructions say that first dialog box allows selection of source.
I only see a "format" window but no "source".

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.0.7 on Windows Vista.

Please provide any additional information below.
None.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 May 2011 at 10:00

AutoStart and AutoCreate folders

I need my screen to be saved at all times. I'm about to add the chronolapse 
shortcut in the startup menu with the -a option, I guess it should work. But i 
want to create a video for each day and currently as all images are created in 
the same directory, it's quite difficult to find where one day starts and 
another one begins. So it would be great if you could make an option to auto 
generate folders based on the year/month/day. This feature is found on 
http://www.16software.com/icyscreen/ and i think is great, but i keep using 
chronolapse because it´s the only software that doesn't eat up my CPU when 
taking shots every 2 seconds.
Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 13 Jul 2011 at 12:09

Audio Dubbing Hangs with Different Folders

Progress bar doesn't move at all with different folders for audio dubbing. 

"Output folder was different than source, (also different physical drive)".

"same in/out and works fine"


Sounds like same bug as video encoding - mencoder doesn't like folders. Should 
already be copying to local folder -- verify and test.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2011 at 11:03

Time change overwrites images

Since CL saves images using the timestamp (for easy sorting and applying 
annotations), capturing during the time change can potentially overwrite 
existing images.


Options

switch to UTC
add microtime and just count on very low number of collisions
use sequential integers and save times in different, additional file :(
remove timestamps altogether bc nobody cares about annotations?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 3 Nov 2011 at 11:04

Flip PIP images -- Requires a viewer

Feature request for switching the images in the PIP. Requires some way to
view the timelapse in image form, then select when the switch(es) happen.

Could create a full annotation system this way as well

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Oct 2008 at 6:09

Add control for screenshot timestamp color

Would be nice to have control over the timestamp text color on screenshots.

If you want to do this manually to your source for now add

memDC.SetTextForeground('RED')

above

memDC.DrawText(stamp, 20, rect.height-30)


Use any of the standard color names or look up how to specify RGB colors in 
wxpython.

Would also be nice to just draw the same text with a black background 
underneath it first, then white. Or the opposite.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Oct 2012 at 7:13

Drop Shadow/Background on annotations

Make it easier to see on any background

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 31 Aug 2009 at 12:36

CL doesn't capture programs that took fullscreen

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run CL capture
2. Fullscreen a running program
3. Observe all white and scaled output


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- Want image of fullscreen game. Ideally the timelapse will view just like the 
monitor did -- beware starting with fullscreen apps then closing them.


Need to look more deeply into how wx handles the screenDC.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR2p8u2dPn4#t=4m11s

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 25 Apr 2011 at 8:13

Small on-screen monitor

Something small that users can leave on screen to verify CL is taking 
screenshots. Maybe with a shot counter and/or a countdown until the next shot.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2011 at 7:14

Timer function doesn't always work

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start Chronolapse switch to the timer tab
2. Set the time and date for the next day
3. Wait until the time and Chronolapse will do nothing.
4. If I set the timer to the same day sometimes it will start working but not 
always.  I have not seen it work when I try to schedule more than a day ahead.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?  I use an AutoIT script 
to start and stop Chronolapse by having it push the start/stop capture button


What version of the product are you using? 1.07. On what operating system?  
Windows 7 & XP


Please provide any additional information below.
Would also like to see a feature where I can just select the day of the week 
that i want Chronolapse to capture.  For instance I only need it to work M-F so 
I would just check those days of the week.  The current method would require me 
to change the dates every weekend or delete a bunch of photos that I don't need.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 26 May 2011 at 7:26

Icon Visual Feedback

Add visual feedback on icon when recording and/or when a still is captured.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Jul 2012 at 11:47

Multi Monitor timestamps not working

I happen to be recording live charts that appear on the rightmost of 2 
monitors, so I have all 3 of "Capture Dual Monitors", "Subsection" and "Show 
Timestamp" selected. Using my setup, I don't seem to notice much happening as a 
result of the "Show Timestamp" item - Seems to me the file names included 
actual dates and times for single-monitor captures, but for dual monitor 
captures the file names have some sort of sequential numbering, or possibly a 
seconds-since type of system date stamping. I don't see any sort of timestamp 
on the capture images, not sure if you intended to have the date and time 
showing on the actual images at all.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Mar 2012 at 9:00

Feature request: Possibility to Automatically start a capture (and minimize to tray)

It would be neat to be able to start ChronoLapse in capture mode
automatically, so you could start it when Windows starts up. A simple
command-line flag like "-auto" could solve this.

Another related feature: minimize to tray so it doesn't take up space in
the task bar. 

Is it possible to remove the annoying DOS window that appears on Windows? I
guess this is a side-effect of running Python.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Aug 2009 at 4:08

Prevent trying to encode over 2048 px wide, or re-compile mencoder

Mencoder doesn't handle over 2048px wide as currently compiled

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Apr 2012 at 4:44

Windows Installer and/or better description of zip structure and how to get started

Consider creating a windows installer for users most familiar with this.

Also add some documentation about the zip being ready-to-use after simply 
extracting to desired directory.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Mar 2012 at 9:02

Add option to minimize to taskbar instead of only to tray

Make it possible to minimize the app like normal as well as collapsing all the 
way to the tray.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Jul 2012 at 11:48

Multi-Cam Input

Add GUI and functionality to capture from multiple cams at once. Requires the 
cam selection GUI issue (issue 22) to be finished first.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 5 Nov 2012 at 5:40

Need option for sequential numeric filenames instead of timestamped

mencoder works with the timestamps, but other encoding options don't. Should 
probably offer either the option in the GUI or a script for converting them.


Added simple beginning of the script to the wiki

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 May 2011 at 11:31

Capture cursor option

See if wx can get the cursor position and icon and make an option to include it 
in the screencap.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 28 Jul 2011 at 9:25

Circular Saving

Add feature to enable only saving the last X images, with a button/key to save 
the entire batch off permanently and continue the looping.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Jul 2012 at 3:29

dpi scaling crops the captured image

1. go to control panel / appearance and personalization / display
2. change to something bigger than default 100%
3. relog
4. capture an image with chronolapse

The image is cropped.


Thanks for making this app, I'm very happy with it, and this isn't actually a 
big deal at all.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Apr 2011 at 3:38

Timeslice Image Generation

A cool feature to add would be generating a single image using all the captures 
across the width or height, with configurable slice sizes and splits.


Options:
 Vertical/Horizontal
 Total Slices
 -- show what the result is --- width per slice, number of pics skipped per slice

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Sep 2012 at 8:25

Schedule Days and Start if startup during schedule

From Jimwink - 
http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/compo-game-loader/#comment-187

"I want to use the scheduler so that it starts and stops every day at the same 
time. I can set it and it works but if the computer reboots unexpectedly and 
Chronolapse restarts (shortcut in the startup folder) the schedule is reset. 
Also I think it would be great to have a checkbox for days you want Chronolapse 
to take pictures. For instance I want to timelapse construction of my house but 
they only work M-F. I don’t want Chronolapse to do anything on the weekend." 


On load, see if we are inside the schedule and start if necessary.
Add days option to schedule.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Jun 2011 at 9:56

Multi monitor support needs improvements

Using Windows XP SP2 and dual monitor setup. 1920x1200 primary and
1280x1024 secondary.

Secondary monitor is located on left side of primary monitor. Program
assumes it is located at right side and captures blank space into
screenshots. Need some way to set/detected location of secondary monitor.

Something to do with different resolutions?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 22 Jul 2009 at 10:43

Attachments:

• screen_2009-07-23_01-43-23.jpg

Image gets stuck after sleep mode

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up every-minute camera capture and let it run for a while.
2. Put computer to sleep.
3. Awaken computer.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is continued new shot. Instead, the camera indicator stays on 
and new files still get created each minute, but the photos are all of the same 
final shot taken before sleep.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

v1.07, Win7x64 build 7600

Please provide any additional information below.
MS Lifecam.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Jun 2011 at 12:00

Screenshot Configure Subsection Labels mixed up

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to capture tab
2. select "configure" for Screenshots
3. select "Subsection" 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The "Top" and "Left" labels are mixed around, the "Top" is actually working as 
the "Left" value offset and the "Left" is actually working as the "Top" value

What version of the product are you using?
1.0.7

On what operating system?
Windows 7


Please provide any additional information below.
Minor issue as its easy enough to still use the fields once you know they are 
mixed around.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Oct 2011 at 11:18

Need mencoder stderr display

Need errors coming out of mencoder

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 23 Apr 2012 at 4:43

Capture on mouse click

Great program!

I'm trying to capture the design process of my 3D CAD work and there can be a 
lot of action in a short period then not much for a while as I think, look at 
sketches etc...

If I could trigger a capture on every mouse click (primary) i think that would 
provide a great time lapse of the process. Should be useful for other 
applications too.

Ideally this could be a check box and would work in conjunction with the timed 
interval. So you can have it capture only on mouse click, or on mouse click and 
at the set interval also.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Mar 2012 at 8:25

is it possible to use a remote (bluetooth) trigger for image capture?

This is a fantastically useful program. We're interested in using it for a 
stop-motion build of an engine assembly, but ideally without capturing the 
engine builder. I'm not sure if new features are being added, but if there was 
a way to use a remote trigger for capture, it would be quite a boon to certain 
users. There are numerous bluetooth adapters used for advancing slides in PPT 
files and the like, and something like that would allow a simple interface for 
image capture. Just a thought. Thanks for creating this program. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Aug 2012 at 4:23

Timestamp position/style on screencaps.

Perhaps a good idea to position the timestamp based on the users selection.

Like a selection box with "Top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right" and 
"black, white".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Dec 2011 at 10:44

use pyOpenCV to add support for mac and linux (finally)

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/python/reading_and_writing_images_a
nd_video.html#index-1087

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 Apr 2011 at 7:51

Hangs when encoding audio when frozen in exe

Exe version only -- works from source

Same problem as <=1.0.3 video encoding.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 May 2011 at 11:19

Audio Tab

Add a tab for dubbing in audio... Need to consider features vs difficulty.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 21 Dec 2010 at 11:46

Sometimes mencoder is placing images out of order

Running CL 1.0.4 on Ubuntu via wine. Same command on mencoder directly produces 
correct results.

Hoping this is a wine problem.


Discovered by Natpat 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 May 2011 at 1:21

Use filenames not mtime

use filenames to store and parse timestamps instead of mtime

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 31 Aug 2009 at 12:37

Desktop Visual Feedback

Add a configurable growl-like popup when capturing.

Add an option for an always-up visual countdown or progress bar.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Jul 2012 at 11:48

Capture multiple frames per second - Request

Thanks for the app!

It looks like exactly what I'm looking for, but I'm having trouble figuring out 
how to set the capture rate below 1.  I was looking through the change log and 
it looks like I should be able to set the capture rate to something above 0.0 
and below 1.0 and still do the automatic capture.

Should that be possible? and if not, could I submit that as a feature request?

Thanks again, cheers.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Apr 2011 at 3:41

Add screen subsection options

Add option to limit recording to a subsection of (each?) screen. 

Width, Height, Top, Left?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Apr 2011 at 12:27