webAlbum 2.4 - CHANGES Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Armando L. Caro, Jr. www.armandocaro.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.4 Minor feature enhancements - Added support for two Microsoft video formats: ASF and WMV. 2.3 Minor Bug fixes - Newer versions of mplayer deprecated the -jpeg command line switch, so the script had to be adapted to handle this change. Thanks to Wayne Veilleux for helping me track down this bug. - There was a bug when this script was used on albums containing only videos and no images. 2.2 Minor Bug fixes - The ancestor tree produced in the upper right corner sometimes would break into two lines. This was fixed. It shouldn't break unless the ancestor tree gets VERY long. Also, the dates are now excluded from this tree, because it was redundant information and made it look ugly. 2.1 Bug fixes - Image Magick 6.0.6 has a bug that interferes with proper video clip thumbnailing and medium-sizing (convert's border option didn't work properly if a 0 height is supplied). webAlbum has been modified to get around this bug. 2.O Major changes - There is now much better support for video formats. The script creates a representative film strip with a few frames of the video. The film strip is thumbnailed and medium-sized for browsing, but once the user clicks on the medium-size film strip, the video is played. - The supplemental script to automatically generate the content list has been improved and merged into the main script. Now the list is created as a nested hierarchical structure to provide a more intuitive navigation system. - The resulting pages have a better look and more useful information. o The images are now shadowed. o The listing pages will list each item with a title, an optional date, an optional comment, a representative icon (first image and/or video), and information about what the item contains (i.e., number of images and/or videos). o The pages that show the medium-sized images show how many images/videos there are in total and which number the current image/video is. That way, the user will know his/her progress when browsing sequentially. o Below each medium-sized image/video, the page displays information about the original file (the file size, the file type, and the resolution). - The script can now automatically prepare an album for burning a Windows autorun CD. In other words, the user doesn't have to manually copy the configuration files anymore. - The script has a better user interface, especially for rotating images and adding captions. - The user no longer has to create the special sub-directory for putting the original images and videos. webAlbum automatically relocates the images and videos appropriately for the user. - The color scheme is now configurable. - The 'xv' dependency has been removed. 1.2 Minor feature enhancements - Includes an autorun configuration for burning CDs that automatically brings up the contents.html page in Windows (not tested with KDE or GNOME). - Includes a supplemental script to automatically generate the contents listing (contents.html) for an album. - User configurable text editor. The default is still Emacs. - More image formats supported (including TIFF, GIF, PNG) - Handles video formats (including AVI, MOV, MPG), but thumbnails are not created. If anyone knows of a utility (preferably command line) to grab the first frame of a video, PLEASE let me know! 1.1 Minor feature enhancements - Images are now automatically converted to JPEG to ensure that the rest of the process goes smoothly. 1.0 Initial Release