(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Version 1.3 is in slacko-5.7-no-pae. Works great, and a bit simpler than pupsnap in slacko-5.5XL.

Thanks 8Geee
___________

Version 1.9:

- compatibility with TahrPup, which uses avconv instead of ffmpeg - tested only in VBox, but everything appears to be in order

First post updated!

Greetings!

When printing a TAS screenshot.jpg to pdf with cups it always ends up blank. I have to open it in mtpaint and save it to get it to print to pdf properly.

rg66 wrote:When printing a TAS screenshot.jpg to pdf with cups it always ends up blank. I have to open it in mtpaint and save it to get it to print to pdf properly.

Hmm, no probs in this regard in FD64 nor Slacko-5.7 nor LxPupTahr, however I was able to reproduce this behavior in Slacko-6beta (I was printing from within Abiword in all cases).
It seems that the fault is on Slacko-6's side...
And the fact that a faulty, "blank" pdf produced there turned out to be perfectly fine when viewed under FD64 - confirms that assumption.

Was it also Slacko-6 or its derivative (X-Slacko, I presume) in you case?

Greetings!

SFR wrote:Was it also Slacko-6 or its derivative (X-Slacko, I presume) in you case?

Yes, X-slacko-3 beta based on slacko-6. I should have tested on 5.7.0

Hallo SFR,
i happened to install v1.9 on a tahr-6.0.2 session having ffmepg already installed on it;
TAS-1.9 couldn't then take a shot and was claiming for missing libx265 exactly the same way as for TAS_1.7.
I had to uninstall ffmepg to get TAS_1.9 taking a shot.
Thanks in advance for any follow-up!
Charlie

Hi Charlie6

Did you try installing that missing libx265?
According to Augras, v1.8 works fine in Tahr with ffmpeg installed:

augras@[url]http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=821342#821342[/url] wrote:Tas doesn't work because ffmpeg and some libraries lack.
I put together ffmpeg_2.5.2, libass5, libfdk-aac, libx265 in a pet and a sfs and it works fine.

Of course v1.9 can use also avconv, so ffmpeg is not necessary.

Anyway, TAS prefers ffmpeg over avconv (if both are installed), but changing line no. 40 from: to: will make TAS to choose avconv, even if ffmpeg is also present, so this should fix your problem.
Let me know if this works, so I'll make it permanent.

Greetings!

I can't get a normal screenshot. See attached image. Fortunately the PrtSc key still loads a screenshot. I downloaded TAS-1.9.pet but I get this message. I'm using Puppy 6.0 Tahrpup.

Relztrah wrote:I get this message. I'm using Puppy 6.0 Tahrpup.

Hi Relztrah - what sort of hardware do you have? Also - are you running Palemoon as spot or root?

@Relztrah: please run TAS from command line: and post the output (if any).

Also, when you click 'View log' button, what the log says?

Greetings!

I get the same result running from a command line. Here's the log:

avconv version 9.16-6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
built on Aug 10 2014 18:19:26 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
[x11grab @ 0x8bb3760] device: :0+0,0+nomouse -> display: :0 x: 0 y: 0 width: 1280 height: 800
[x11grab @ 0x8bb3760] shared memory extension found
[x11grab @ 0x8bb3760] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, x11grab, from ':0+0,0+nomouse':
Duration: N/A, start: 1454539617.969574, bitrate: 819199 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, bgra, 1280x800, 819199 kb/s, 1000k tbn, 25 tbc
Option loop not found.


Hardware is an IBM Thnkpad

Thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to repro this on Tahrpup-6.0-CE_PAE + TAS-1.9.

your log wrote:Option loop not found.

The option 'loop' is used only for ffmpeg, whereas Tahrpup ships with avconv instead.
Have you also installed ffmpeg by any chance?

Anyway, please locate the following line (40th) in /usr/bin/tas: replace it with this: and see if there's any difference.

Also, you could try if TAS works properly in a pristine enviroment, i.e. boot Tahr using pfix=ram.

Greetings!

Version 1.10:

- possible fix for supposed avconv/ffmpeg clash (problem reported by Relztrah)
- fixed date/time stamps not being calculated correctly if DELAY and/or Window/Region modes has been used

First post updated!

Greetings!

Thank you!

TAS 1.2 in slacko 5.6 always worked flawless for me. Never gave me a reason to update.
For some reasons I now needed to change TAS's default image editor. A good excuse to download and play with version 1.10.

Changing the default editor is easy, but what is this awful beep? It really sounds terrible on my new netbook. I've never noticed before since 1.2 was beepless and I don't had audio on my desktop anyway.

I now killed this function because I still see no need for it (there is optical feedback when an action ends, so why an extra beep?). If it really has to be a beep, wouldn't the standard system beep (echo -e "\a") or the - customized - busybox beep be a lighter and more reliable choice? At least to me they sound better.

Hey Mochi

(there is optical feedback when an action ends, so why an extra beep?).

It doesn't mark an end, it marks the exact moment when screenshotting begins, which is especially useful for animated GIFs (particularly if DELAY is also set) - you know exactly when to start doing your stuff.

If it really has to be a beep, wouldn't the standard system beep (echo -e "\a") or the - customized - busybox beep be a lighter and more reliable choice? At least to me they sound better.

The standard beep may not work on some machines. On others (Acer AO 722) it's dreadfully loud by default and I wouldn't like TAS to cause heart attacks.

But thanks for sharing your opinion - I may add an appropriate checkbox in next version.

Greetings!

Hello SFR!

Again congratulations on your new version!

In the French version, as a translation for

Toggle extra options

I'd suggest

Plus d'options

The context will serve as the verb.

"Toggle" is a difficult verb to translate in French. We don't have the exact equivalent.
We have to use two verbs side by side, something like:

Révéler/masquer plus d'options

or

Afficher/cacher plus d'options

which both convey the correct meaning, but I think there is not enough space on
the button.

Best regards.

Thanks Musher0, I just uploaded the updated NLS package.

Greetings!

Thanks for including it, SFR.

BFN.

SFR wrote:I may add an appropriate checkbox in next version.

May be the best compromise. I now see the usefulness for shooting sequential frames and for Quickshots, both options not available in my previous old version.

Our little discussion reminded me where I really miss audio feedback: I set the delay to 5sec to catch cascaded menus which take time to prepare. 5 sec can be very short when I make a mistake and have to redo the preparation. Makes me really nervous when I don't know how much time is left until the shooting. A ticking *something* would be nice like the blinking self-timer lamp on cameras or the time signal before the evening news.

But never mind, these are petty details. I now tweaked v.1.10 a bit and have it the way I like it:

1) Changed the terrible beep with the shutter sound of a Canon 350D
2) Let a femal voice do the count down. It's now "Five...Four...Three...Two...One...Katchan!!".
3) Changed the save directory for Quickshots from the hardcode $HOME to the save directory specified in the config file.

BTW: For the voice files I use the ones offered here. They play well in mplayer, but not in aplay. Any idea what's wrong with them?

MochiMoppel wrote:2) Let a femal voice do the count down. It's now "Five...Four...Three...Two...One...Katchan!!".

Keen to hear how you set that up. Could be handy.