91 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Verifying account creation isn't sustainable, it's what I did for several years but now there is just too much volume. I just double checked the numbers, for the month of July alone I got 982 registration mail alerts. I'm not reading them. These are only the ones that manage to pass the captcha. About half of them go to a special honey pot page I set up but the rest is still too much. So we need to wait until they make their first move and reveal themselves.

The frustrating part is that the bots continue to attack even if it doesn't work. The website must be in spammers database somewhere and they just don't care if their attempts fail.

Some of the bots are also never posting but use the report button on random posts and put a link in the "reason" field, that doesn't make any sense, only a forum admin/mod can read this… I hope they don't start to do this more often.

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92 Topic by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Hi everyone!

You may not realize this but the forum is constantly harassed by spam bots trying to post their links.

There are more than 10 new bots that register every single day on the forum and try to post messages. This has been going on for years and I have implemented many counter measures directly in the forum software code (which is unmaintained by the creators but I like its simplicity), so hopefully you shouldn't see any spam.

I catch some of them at registration time, others I catch when they fill their profile and signature, and others I catch when they post their first message. There is a secret sub-forum where they all end up together.

By the way if you are a human and your message is nowhere to be seen after you post, send me an email at the address at the bottom of the page so I can move it back into the main forum manually.

That being said since a few weeks there is a new form of attack I had never seen before, using AI / ChatGPT. The bot is making an actual answer by quoting the original question. The answer is looking normal and is vaguely on topic. But then they sneakily change the original question inside the quote to insert a link. Sometimes changing the font color so it is invisible. Sometimes they don't do it outright, they first post the answer and then come back a few days later and change the text in the quote. Very sneaky.

Obviously I would rather work on Kinovea than deal with this, and I don't want to restore the registration block where I had to manually validate every new registration, there is just too many bots to handle it manually. So if you see a suspiciously weird message don't hesitate to click the "report" link so I can have a look.

Thank you!
Joan.

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93 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in General)

Not directly at the moment. The closest thing is to use OpenPose to generate .json pose files, then you can open the first one in the folder as an annotation file. It's not going to create trajectories though, each pose file is converted to a separate posture drawing on the corresponding frame.

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94 Reply by joan

(7 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

No unfortunately I still haven't had time to wrap up the next version. I had a list of things I absolutely wanted to have in it and I think I'll have to cut it short… I've been busy at work and couldn't find the time to implement all the things I wanted. I think I'll post the current state of things in the forum asap to get things rolling again.

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95 Reply by joan

(7 replies, posted in Cameras and hardware)

Yes unfortunately I haven't had time to fix this and update to newer Pylon versions.

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96 Reply by joan

(3 replies, posted in General)

Sorry about that, no there is not really any way around it at the moment.

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97 Reply by joan

(3 replies, posted in General)

When you add a line it is attached to the particular frame you added it on. Let's call this the anchor frame.
- Select the "Custom fading" option for the line.
- If you don't want to see the line before the anchor frame at all, set the Fading duration to zero.
- If you want the line to stay fully visible for say 10 frames after the anchor frame, set Opaque duration to 10.

More details:
"Opaque duration" is how many frames after the anchor frame it will stay fully visible (or at the max opacity configured).
"Fading duration" is the fading in/out effect that is created before the anchor frame and after the last frame of the "opaque period".

Each object can have its own fading/opacity parameters, by using the "Custom fading" option. If it is set to "Default fading" it will use the global option configured in Preferences > Drawings > Opacity.

If the line is tracked it will be forced at max opacity while it is tracked.

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98 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Bug reports)

If you go in the camera tab in the explorer panel on the left, do you see your camera?

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99 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Glad you solved your issue. You were talking about passing WM_COPYDATA messages right?
I actually tested this outside of C# so if you could share the final code snippet where you make the call it would be great, I'll add it to the documentation somewhere. I think it would be great to have several code samples in various programming languages for this.

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100 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in Bug reports)

Thanks for the videos, I'll look into it.

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101 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Cameras and hardware)

Yeah between the camera constantly filming and the app constantly streaming via WiFi they tend to heat up. I have had the same experience using this setup. I don't think it's the app per se, mobile phones don't have great heat dissipation.

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102 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

For jump to time one tricky aspect is the time format that changes based on preferences. Note that you can jump forward/backward by large amounts using the Page down/Page up keyboard shortcuts. If you already know the target point you could also add a key image there and then you can just click it or use CTRL+arrow to jump there.

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103 Reply by joan

(13 replies, posted in General)

Hi, yes it's still possible. Instead of creating the point and right clicking it, you can directly right click on the video image itself and do "Track path" menu. This will create a trajectory object with the path as before.

Explanation: in the older version the individual objects like points, lines, angles, etc. were not trackable themselves so when you right clicked on the point it had a special function to create the trajectory object for you and hide the point. I intend to have an option to show the path of the points of trackable objects in the future.

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104 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in Bug reports)

Hi, yes this has been fixed for the next version.
This .xml format was an old Excel format that was simpler to create at the time, now I've rewritten the exporter using a library that emit .xlsx natively.

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105 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by "track pad". Like a track / trajectory? It should export similarly to other drawings. There are a few things that are not exported like the magnifier.

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