Reoling 1.0.0

Reoling 1.0.0 is the first release with installable packages: a .deb for
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later and an AppImage for other distributions, both
built on Ubuntu 24.04 by the release workflow.

Supported systems

x86_64 Linux, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or newer (Debian 13 or newer too). The
AppImage runs on any distribution with glibc 2.39 and GLib 2.80 or newer
(Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13 and later).

What 1.0.0 brings

• Settings pages, read-only, with the values as the device reports them:
  the camera settings window gets Info, Image, Display, Detection, Light &
  sound, Schedules and Network tabs beside Encoding, and "Device settings…"
  in a Home Hub's or NVR's card menu opens the device's own window — Info,
  Storage, Network, Time, Light & sound (Hub) or Alerts (NVR), Users,
  Maintenance. Rows a model does not have are left out, after the camera's
  own ability table. Only Encoding can be changed.
• Playback downloads: a range whose first recording is silent still gets
  the sound of a later recording it covers; two downloads started together
  never write into one file; a download the device does not answer in time
  is ended on the device and the connection stays usable; when the disk
  cannot keep up, the download fails instead of holding the recording in
  memory; and a damaged frame header in recorded footage no longer makes
  playback or a download wait for a frame that never completes — the
  stream resyncs at the next frame.
• Requests that arrive while a download holds the connection, the settings
  reads among them, wait and go out once it is over.
• Decoding: the hardware decoder — NVDEC or VA-API — is picked
  automatically, with the software decoders as the fallback. Hardware, set
  on a machine without a usable hardware decoder, decodes in software
  instead of leaving the picture black; the Decoding row says that no
  hardware decoder was found, and System Status names the mode in use.
• AppImage: it follows the desktop's theme and accent colour, bundles the
  NVIDIA and VA-API GStreamer plugins for hardware decoding, takes GLib and
  libva from the system, and gives its own file the Reoling icon in GNOME
  Files from the first run on. Where the .deb is not installed it also adds
  Reoling to the applications menu, so the dock shows the Reoling icon for
  its window; once the .deb is installed, the next start of either package
  hands over to the .deb's entry. It does this only for the AppImage file
  it was started from: it installs no thumbnailer and no file type
  association.
• reoling --version prints the version.

Installation

AppImage (Reoling-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage):

chmod +x Reoling-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
./Reoling-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage

It mounts itself with FUSE 2 (libfuse2 or libfuse2t64); without it,
--appimage-extract-and-run unpacks it for that run. The first start gives
the file the Reoling icon in GNOME Files and adds a Reoling entry to the
applications menu and the dock.

Debian package (reoling_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb):

sudo apt install ./reoling_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

apt installs the GTK 4 and GStreamer runtime with it and recommends a
VA-API driver and a keyring for the device passwords. Reoling then appears
in the applications menu.

SHA-256

da788a27fa6434d14d000415c655e7d9e7a370bbbc86964222a9aa220049bd36  Reoling-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
63994dd55831e4b6a9885161db607805c5942c8e1322d5b8d49380d386f63f65  reoling_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb