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item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/01/06/dhyana/,06/01/2008: dhyana.pl/0.3,"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest update to <a href=""/tag/dhyana/"">dhyana.pl</a>&#8230;</p>  <h2>Change Log</h2>   <ul> <li>Added a title to the output image, which can be in a different font and colour from the rest of the text.</li> <li>Use Getopt to parse command line, and accept more options.</li> <li>Improved handling of certain dodgy <span class=""caps"">WMV </span>files, mostly thanks to Matt Pinkham.</li> <li>Improved use of <span class=""caps"">FFMPEG</span></li> <li>Code straightened out to use functions&nbsp;&#8212; it used to be one big long mess.</li> <li>Added a help function&nbsp;&#8212; just run the program with the <tt>&#8212;help</tt> paramater.</li> </ul>    <h2>Requirements</h2>   <ul> <li>Perl Getopt::ArgvFile</li> <li>Perl Getopt::Long &#8805; 2.33</li> <li>Perl Pod::Usage;</li> <li>mplayer</li> <li>ImageMagick</li> </ul>    <h3>Optional</h3>   <ul> <li>Perl File::chdir</li> <li>Perl File::Spec</li> <li>Perl Cwd</li> <li><span class=""caps"">FFMPEG</span></li> </ul>    <p>All of the Perl modules can be found in <a href=""http://www.cpan.org""><span class=""caps"">CPAN</span></a>, here is the <a href=""http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/""><span class=""caps"">FFMPEG</span></a> site and here is <a href=""http://mplayerhq.hu/"">mplayer</a>. And don&#8217;t forget <a href=""http://imagemagick.org"">ImageMagick</a>.</p>  <h2>Download</h2>   <ul> <li><a href=""/blog/2008/01/06/dhyana/files/dhyana.pl"">Perl script</a></li> <li><a href=""/blog/2008/01/06/dhyana/files/dhyana.pl.html"" title=""for viewing online"">Source code</a></li> </ul>  "
item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/11/18/dhyana/,18/11/2007: Dhyana.pl Updated,"<p>This release works around errors in capturing screen shots from certain <span class=""caps"">WMV </span>files. It also changes the default geometry from 240&#215;180+0+0 to &#8220;auto&#8221; which is an automatically calculated, hopefully appropriate, geometry.</p>"
item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/08/19/dhyana/,19/08/2007: Sequential Video Thumbnails on Linux,"<p>So, I was looking for a way to create sequential video thumbnails (<a href=""/blog/2007/08/19/dhyana/files/pb-s02e03.jpeg"">like this one</a>) from a video file on Linux. I found that my options were severely limited. On Windows there are a plethora of tools capable of this fairly simple task, including <a href=""http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/"">Media Player Classic</a>, but on Linux all I could find was <a href=""http://developer.berlios.de/projects/qframecatcher/"">QFrameCatcher</a>. The QFrameCatcher website was inaccessible yesterday; today I managed to download the source code, but couldn&#8217;t get it to build.</p>  <p>Anyway, I decided it probably wouldn&#8217;t be very difficult to build my own so&#8230;</p>  <h2>dhyana.pl</h2>  <p>dhyana.pl is a small Perl script that co-ordinates <a href=""http://mplayerhq.hu"">mplayer</a> and <a href=""http://imagemagick.org"">ImageMagick</a> to create a lovely montage of thumbnails. (Dyhana&nbsp;&#8212; roughly pronounced as <em>&#8220;jahna&#8221;</em>&nbsp;&#8212; is the Sanskrit word for a deep meditation.)</p>"