* Handles gray scale images without crashing * right-click menus re-organized * New command: sort by size * New command: sort by date * New command: sort by name (kinda broken) * New command: save as... * New command: open diary page of sender * Web Page updated * Now supports drag and drop (drag image to synVideo to send it) * Won't overwrite existing file unless it comes from 'orginal author'
Known Issues:
There are several maximum file size/dimension issues. For example, synVideo simply refuses to deal with pictures which are too large, in the (width x height) sense, which means you have to shrink them before you send them. Exactly how large that is, is a mystery to me . But I know it is smaller than the default resolution of my camera, so it's a drag to drag, so to speak.
Several of the new features (drag and drop, and open diary in particular) require an update to Arcadia as well. (Arcadia A56, also released)
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Problem. People are sending images spoofing as others. I was accused of sending a picture, accuser gives me the name but its not on my list. Somone sent me an offensive picture so i delted it, i dont know if this was the same picture i was later accused of sending or not. Is it possible a glitch where i delete a picture and later it sends as from me and i cant see i sent it?... I dont know but it causes lots of problems. I can say i definately did not send this picture. Woo Hoi makes similar claims but i can not vouch for him i dont know what to beleive. Everyones pointing fingers.
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Also the show diary of sender thing isnt working for me all the time. Sometimes it always brings up the same person in my diary. If i re enter a few times it can be fixed by its self. I resent someones picture, and i right clicked the instance from me (the latest entry of that image, as i have just resent it) and go to show diary and it shows the authors diary. Its flawed. Syn Video just makes everyone around me argue Posts: 97 | From: america | Registered: Feb 2007
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You seem to complain about it, but as far as I know, it is impossible for anyone to fake who the file was sent by, unless you hack his computer or something.
Just like you can't fake who's talking.
What we're really talking about here is probably an anti-hack, not just for synVideo, but for Arcadia itself.
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1) Someone hacked and made it look like the pictures were sent from you 2) You sent it but began flipping out saying it wasn't you
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quote:He sent me an image pretending to be Woo Hoi...
What?
I mean, it would make sense if it was the other way around, but if I was not joking, why in the world would I do that?
Like I have mentioned above, I do not know of a way to impersonate synVideo images, nor I know how to hack. You guys can all stop accusing me now.
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* adds a text line when sending/receiving images, documenting the image name and sender/receiver name, for people who are confused as to who sent them a picture
* adds progress meter(s) for incoming images (and a new option to disable progress meters if you hate them)
* adds support for a few sound effects, but only actually wires in one for clicking in the image list.
* clicking in the main window no longer toggles stretch mode. There is now a little glyph in the top right you can click on instead
* clicking/dragging in the main window now drags the image around (unless you are in stretch mode). This allows you to explore images which are too large to fit in your window, without having to stretch/squish them.
I think that's it.
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Jeez, with the work done on synvideo, it's only a matter of time until synspades is fixed!
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Is there a limit to the amount of images that will be listed in synvideo? I have over 4,500 images in my synvideo folder now but it's only showing about 2/3 of them in-game.
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It's probably some power of two. My guess is an artificial limit around 4096.
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Still, it gets annoying having to hunt for the image manually through the folder instead of them all being organized into that nice little list in SynVideo
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Yeah, I've often wanted a sort of search feature. I guess you could always open of the folder in Windows explorer and search it, but something that searches the filenames in the list of images recieved form within SynVideo might also be nice. I was thinking a search box that you could type into including partial filenames (or just the recognition of the * wildcard, the same thing more or less) so that if I can't remember who sent a certain image that I wished to resend, I could quickly type the part of the filename I remembered and then the list would be re-organized with the best matches at the bottom (since the list auto-scrolls down if the last image is selected, so it makes more sense to organize it bottom-up). I've also often thought the ability to re-organize the list by date might be useful. Oh, and I noticed that the filesize in SynVideo is based on 1 KB = 1000 B. Well that's my two-cents for the year.
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By the way, in case I didn't already say so, bravo to the improvements to SynVideo over the past year. Well done. I especially like the ability to drag compatible images directly into SV, and how I can drag around the image to scroll now. Both very nice and useful improvements.
[you can also sort by date right-click on list for sort options.. -s]
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It would be good if a third state was added to the resize toggle button (the square in the top-right of the image view) that would allow the image to be scaled to fit the width of the image in the viewable area. This would also lock the ability to drag the image horizontally, though vertical dragging would still be possible. Many times images are significantly taller than they are wide. In those cases, the current scaling method of resizing to relatively largest isn't very practical.
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That would be good if it would be added as a personal preference, rather than adding a third state.
As for the expanded file type support... PNGs and GIFs would be very useful. However GIF animations aren't really my flavor, I'd rather upload it somewhere and share the link for GIF animations (and no I don't use Imageshack, thank you). Plus some GIFs come with transparency,
But in reality, GIF support is a big pain in the rear because: 1) They only come in 256 colors, which may seem fine, but is a big no-no because the image will get horribly messed up unless it has the exact same color palette as souls.pal used by Arcadia, which is highly unlikely for most GIF images (unless you actually convert its palette to souls.pal, but I'd rather take less hassle and just convert it to a JPEG). 2) Some GIFs are animated. It would be a lot easier for Dan if he'll ignore all the anim frames and share GIFs as a static image, though. 3) Some support transparency. Transparency is not simply pixels with an "invisible" color; GIF takes one of the colors on its color palette to be transparent, meaning again this will conflict with souls.pal. This may cause funky glitches unless Dan pays most careful attention when adding GIF support. Of course, he can also let synVideo ignore transparency and not deal with "much pain for little gain".
I generally prefer PNGs over GIFs, also, because PNG supports both 24-bit and 256 colors, and are often smaller in filesize than GIFs. Of course, I know when to use whether a JPG, GIF, PNG, or BMP; most of the images I upload are desktop screenshots or games with low-end graphics, and PNGs are imo best for such screenshots.
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not that support for PNG, GIF, or aGIF is in any way likely, I would like to point out that synVideo actually uses my special '16 bit color' support as opposed to the souls palette. That's why photos look much better in synVideo than elsewhere in Arcadia/WoS.
And no, I can't just use it elsewhere as I lose all my sprite/image merging stuff.
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I was in synvideo, and I drug an image to the screen to send. Then my Arcadia client crashed.
I thought nothing of it and reloaded it.
But when I entered the server again,the toy would not load. The box came up saying that synvideo was loading, but the screen stayed on the toy select screen and would not let me chose a toy. I re-entered and tried multiple times.
It doesn't matter if I'm alone or if there's other people in the server before me, I cannot load synvideo.
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The image was fairly small, about 54kB. It seems to be the image name itself that messed things up, since I made a renamed copy and it sent fine.
The name was too long for it to have properly sent to others, but it still saved to my PC when I drug it from IE.
Edit: I sent the image through the email so you can see if there's anything in particular in the filename that would have caused this.
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