Hi, I'll try to answer your questions:
- It sounds like there is a bug in the saving function of Kinovea, no doubt about that.
- (At the very least it should pop an error)
- Depending on where it fails in the saving process, you might end up with : nothing, an empty file, or a corrupted file.
- I don't think any pre processing done by VirtualDub could be a problem: If you can read it, you should be able to save it.
- From what you describe I would think it is input dependant. Can you try with other samples ? (For exemple, try with the help video you get in Help > Video Tutorials)
- Reduce the selection to a about 3 seconds and try to save, is that ok ?
If you can confirm that it is dependant on the input video, I would be interested in getting a sample that makes the app behave badly. (joan at kinovea dot org)
- About time "stamps" under key images.
These aren't actually time stamps, they are the titles of the key image. (you can modify it through the "Show Comment" icon).
It so happens that by default, the key image title is set to its current time within the selection. So if you play with selection, you can get the behavior you describe.
(I should probably make all this clearer...)
Not being able to save the static pics is another problem, and one I didn't hear about before.
The only thing I can think of is writing rights to the output folder, but we already ruled that out.
Can you please enable logging ?
To do that you must go to the installation folder and edit the file "LogConf.xml".
At line 12, replace
<level value="INFOS" />
with
<level value="DEBUG" />
I'm not too sure if we'll get a better understanding, but you will find the log file (under XP) at the following location :
C:\Documents and Settings\[your windows user name here]\Application Data\Kinovea\log.txt
("Application Data" may be a hidden folder)
Then please send me the resulting log by mail and we'll try to sort this out.
Thank you, and sorry for the frustration.