DVR-Scan v1.7

Release Notes

DVR-Scan 1.7 ships with a completely new UI, and supports faster video decoders (up to 50% better scanning performance):

The UI can be started by running dvr-scan-app, and is installed alongside the existing command line interface dvr-scan. Config settings and region files can be shared seamlessly between both. Feedback on the new UI is welcome.

1.7.0.1 (March 11, 2025)

Re-release of Windows distribution that fixes program hanging when starting scan (#209). This was caused due to the way the program was built. There are no code changes, so the Python distribution has not been re-released.

1.7.1 (February 28, 2025)

• [feature] New GUI now available across all platforms, can be launched via dvr-scan-app
  • Has UI elements for all settings, supports editing motion regions
  • Shows scan progress in real-time
• [feature] Add ability to control video decoder via input-mode config option (opencv, pyav, moviepy)
  • Allows switching between OpenCV (default), PyAV, and MoviePy for video decoding
  • Certain backends provide substantial performance benefits, up to 50% in some cases (let us know which one works best!)
• [bugfix] Fix crash on headless systems that don't have pillow installed
• [general] The region editor no longer prompts for a save path if one was already specified via the -s/--save-regions option
• [general] A size-limited logfile is now kept locally, useful for filing bug reports
  • Can be controlled with config file options save-log (default: yes), max-log-size (default: 20 kB), max-log-files (default: 4)
  • Path can be found under help entry for --logfile by running dvr-scan --help or dvr-scan-app --help
• [general] Minimum supported Python version is now 3.9