Release FITS 0.8.10 - Video Support

[David Birtwell]

All:

A new release for FITS version 0.8.10 has been uploaded and can be found here:

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads

This includes the first official release of the MediaInfo tool’s support for Video metadata extraction.

FYI - There will be a new release shortly which will update several of the tools wrapped by FITS.

There are some important notes highlighted below in RED. These will help you to understand what is supported out-of-the box for video metadata extraction using the distributed tool.

Please note that I have included release details below for versions 0.8.7 – 0.8.10, as 0.8.6 was the last official release of FITS.

The standard metadata output for video files is EBU Core 1.4 using the ebucore_20140318.xsd schema.

RELEASE NOTES:

Version 0.8.10 (10/21/15)

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NOTE:

This is the first official release of Video support using the MediaInfo tool.

Out of the box, the FITS MediaInfo tool will ONLY be supporting the following 64-bit OSes:

    Windows 7 - 64-bit

    Mac OS X -  64-bit

    Red Hat 6.x - 64-bit

These come preconfigured for MediaInfo release 0.7.75.

For more information about the MediaInfo tool, please see:

    https://mediaarea.net

It is important to know that you MUST use a 64-bit JVM (JDK or JRE) to use the MediaInfo

tool as it is distributed in FITS.

The FITS MediaInfo tool will detect whether the OS is Windows/Mac OS X/LINUX and dynamically

load the associated MediaInfo libraries for any of these OSes.

If you wish to use a LINUX distribution other than Red Hat 6.x, or for more trouble-shooting details,

please see:

    http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fitsfaq

Below are the revisions done for FITS Version 0.8.10:

- Implement X/Y Channel Positions based upon text returned by Media Info.

- Revise Mime Type for MPEG-4 wrapped in Quicktime.

- Added "version" to some of the XMLUnit Tests as an attribute to ignore.

- Updated hclaps.jar to address the incorrect BEXT offset calculation being reported for WAV files.

- Updated fits.xml to suppress the invocation of NLNZ for WAV files.

- Revised internal handling of MediaInfo track IDs to manage those containing hex data.

- DROID now given preference over JHOVE

Version 0.8.9 (08/12/15) - Not an Official Release

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Removed old version of TIKA jar file

Updated SLF4J jar filed for DROID

Revised to use versioned OTS jar file

Minor Unit Test cleanup

Version 0.8.8 (07/29/15) - Not an Official Release

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- Added initial support for video files using the MediaInfo Tool

- Tika 1.8 update

Version 0.8.7 (6/8/15) - Not an Official Release

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- Added logging properties that were lost back into class.

Thanks,

Dave B.

Harvard University Information Technology 

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