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[Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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