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Welcome to Goat 1000 - this is where you'll find some of the bits and pieces of software that I cobble together for fun. Please feel free to download them and try them out. All this stuff is freeware, no guarantee that it will do anything, etc. (though if it does fail to do anything, please let me know!)

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27/02/2024

JPEG Saver 5.29

Just a few small updates this time, I probably spent more time testing and checking through code than actually adding anything new.

Just Go Away

All that testing and checking was because I have made this version exit faster, and I wanted to be fairly sure that it wouldn't cause any problems. In the end I didn't find anything important that was adversely affected by this change, but I did a bit of tidying on my way through.

One Way or Another

The hotkey that hides and shows the text (usually 'c') now only hides the text displayed by items instead of hiding item text and status messages. I've added in another hotkey (default 'shift-c') that acts the old way and hides everything.

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19/01/2024

JPEG Saver 5.28.1

There are a couple of bugs fixed and a few minor improvements in this version of JPEG Saver. I remembered to check that it works on Windows 7 this time as well.

Video buffering

The biggest change in this version is the addition of a fixed buffer for decompressed video frames. In previous versions JPEG Saver would allocate memory for each frame and pass it over to the renderer where it would be deallocated.

That is a bit inefficient, and the way JPEG Saver was queueing the frames meant that it could also end up using a lot of memory when jumping forwards or backwards through the video. I have also tidied up how JPEG Saver does the jumping around, which leads onto the major problem I fixed in this version.

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11/12/2023

JPEG Saver 5.28

I was never happy with the way video worked in JPEG Saver, so I have gone back and looked at it again. Actually I never stopped looking at it, but I've stopped looking and taken action this time.

Video again

I added support for playing video back in version 5.8, in mid-2020. I used Microsoft Media Foundation, because that is what the Microsoft documentation recommended and because it is supposed to be well supported in Windows. It works fine.

The problem that I had with it was that the default way for Media Foundation's Media Session to output video is directly to a window, filling it with the video frames as and when they are supposed to be displayed. That meant using a dedicated window for the video that sits on top of JPEG Saver's main window and does nothing else. I couldn't draw anything on it without it being written over by the next frame, and JPEG Saver's status messages and information items would end up hidden behind the video window.

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