Hi everyone, This is the first release to enable the download of videos, which was a popular feature request. The use of pyexiv2 >= 0.2.0 is also enabled. This latter feature is very helpful for users of Nikon and other cameras whose RAW files include more than one thumbnail. Previously the thumbnails of such RAW files could not be displayed. Now they can.
There were many changes to the code. Not all the translations have been updated. This is the full change log: Videos can now be downloaded in much the same way photos can. The package kaa metadata is required to download videos. ffmpegthumbnailer is used to display thumbnail images of certain types of videos as the download occurs. kaa metadata and ffmpegthumbnailer are optional. The program will run without them. See the INSTALL file for details. If a THM file with the same name as the video is present, it will be used to generate a thumbnail for the video. If not, if ffmpegthumbnailer is installed, Rapid Photo Downloader will use it to attempt to extract a thumbnail from the video. THM files are not downloaded. For now, sequence values are shared between the downloads of videos and photos. There may be an option to have two sets of sequence numbers in a future release. Due to the number of changes in the code, it is possible that regressions in the photo downloading code may have been introduced. This is the first release to use version 0.2.x of the pyexiv2 library. The most immediate benefit of this change is that thumbnail images from Nikon and other brand cameras can be displayed. This fixes bugs #369640 and #570378. Please note pyexiv2 0.2.x requires exiv2 0.1.9 or above. Rapid Photo Downloader will still work with pyexiv2 0.1.x. However it will not be able to display the thumbnails of some brands of camera. If Rapid Photo Downloader detects version 0.18.1 or higher of the exiv2 library, it will download Panasonic's RW2 files. If it detects version 0.18.0 or higher of the exiv2 library, it will download Mamiya's MEF files. For Rapid Photo Downloader to be able to detect which version of the exiv2 library your system has, it must either be running pyexiv2 >= 0.2.0, or have exiv2 installed. Fixed bug #483222: sometimes images could not be downloaded to NTFS partitions. This fix was a welcome side effect of using GIO to copy images, instead of relying on the python standard libary. Error message headings in the Error Log are now displayed in a red font. Program settings and preferences can be reset using a new command line option. Program preferences are now more thoroughly checked for validity when the program starts. Further work was done to fix bug #505492, to handle cases where the system notification system is not working properly. Damon -- http://www.damonlynch.net
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