VERSION LOG

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 7:36:00 +0200

1.34 JCQ P Oct 27, 2012	NOTE: 1.34 JCQ P is the experimental "presenter" version for MacOsX10.6 and MacOsX10.7 Added features: Added the possibility of projecting the current slide on an external screen Improved quality of the generated slide images Other changes: Replaced the PDF image generation technology (now based on an automator script)
1.30.02JCQ Apr 23, 2012	NOTE: 1.30.02JCQ is the production version for MacOsX10.6 and MacOsX10.7 Added features: Accessible version (Zanella's thesis work) basic iTunesU metadata generation better evidence of the recording state in the interface Other changes: Fixed a bug related to (development) directories with a space in the name
1.25.7JCQ Mar 1, 2012	Added features: Publication menu, for automatic generation of a course web site (Colombari's thesis work) iTunesU video export (but as of now only on MacOsX 10.6) (Mattei's thesis work) Other changes: Reimplemented video capturing, abandoning QuickTime4Java and passing to a custom implementation based on QTKit (Matassoni's thesis work) Restructured to prepare for the future Widows and Linux versions At the end of a lecture, the system is ready to start recording another one without the need to restart the program. Fixed a bug related to long course names (1.25.6) Split the File menu into Course and Lecture (1.25.7) FIxed a bug related to short slide titles (1.25.7) Known nuisances: When recording from DV, the audio meter does not show the audio level
1.0k2 Jan 18, 2011	NOTE: 1.0k2 is the production version for MacOsX10.4, 10.5 Added features: Libraries update Possibility to reset the video if it gets stuck
1.0k Dec 10,2009	Added features: text extraction is now performed also for pdf slides. This allows to have better slide titles, and is useful for the automatic generation of Web sites
1.0j Mar 3,2009	Added features: audio level monitor (to avoid unpleasant surprises after postptocessing, now there is an indicator of the sound capture - and a warning when no sound is present!) headless execution for batch postprocessing (for automatic postpocessing of several lectures) password protection of the preferences The title of the lecture is now optional Bugs fixed - fixed slideless lectures
1.0h Nov 12,2008	Bugs fixed - Fixed weird behavior when pausing a recording - the bug fixed in version f was reintroduced in version g...
1.0g Oct 27,2008	Added preferences preferences are saved in an XML file Improved device selection i/o devices can be chosen from Preferences menu if the preferred and the default devices are not available, the user can now choose among the available devices Improved slide import solved problem that blocked import of ppt slides on certain images included new version of the libraries for extracting images from pdf and ppt - results should be slightly better added possibility to directly import jpeg images from a directory Improved video management added possibility to reset video added possibility to start recording a next lecture without exiting Postprocessing added possibility to do batch postprocessing at course level or a global level added possibility to rebuild distribution (withouth reprocessing the video) Various fixes fixed wrong trimming of log file transformed the internal (xml) courseHome to be relative instead of absolute (but still compatible with the past)
1.0f Sept 26,2008	Postprocessing: At the end of the postprocessing, it is now possible to open a browser from within LODE to view the postprocessed lecture Added keyboard shortcuts to add a slide (using UP-arrow or Enter. Added safe closing/quitting - if quitting or closing the main window or the app while recording, the movie is saved before exiting when stopping recording, the movie acquisition is immedately suspended, and a confirmation is requested (to avoid possible user mistakes) Bugs fixed - Fixed weird behavior when pausing a recording - Fixed bug in the automatic choice of input (with certain DV devices audio input was absent)
1.0e Sept 21,2008	Postprocessing: added option to compress video at higher resolution added info at the end of the postprocessing process Fixed import slides from multiple sources and improved import from pdf
1.0d Sept 13,2008	Postprocessing: Now it adds Flash Metadata in the flv video, keyframes are now every 2 seconds so that navigation in the browser is more precise Improved the course and lecture selection (in the File Menu)

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