Contemplating Windows 7 upgrade -- will these still work?

[Calidore]

I'm basically wondering if I can stick with Home Premium, or if I'm going to need the XP mode available in the Ultimate Edition. I just need to know if people have found the following A/V software to work okay in W7:

VirtualDub (with x264vfw)
AVStoDVD
Avanti
WinFF
ffdshow
ffmpeg
Audacity
Imgburn

Input much appreciated. Thanks!

[mh2360]

VirtualDub (with x264vfw) Works fine.
AVStoDVD Don't know
Avanti Don't know
WinFF Works fine.
ffdshow Works fine.
ffmpeg Works fine.
Audacity Don't know.
Imgburn Works fine.

Windows 7 has been around long enough so that any software that may have had problems, would now have been fixed.

[jagabo]

Audacity works.

[usually_quiet]

AVStoDVD works

[pepegot1]

I have those and other legacy software running perfectly on Win 7, 64 bit.

[Calidore]

You folks are awesome. Thanks a bunch!

[ranchhand]

You may as well bite the bullet and plunge in; XPs death countdown has started by M/Soft. If you are going to do it, do it right and get Ultimate. You can configure permissions, registry and system far more.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226023/Microsoft_starts_XP_retirement_countdow...?taxonomyId=89

[Hoser Rob]

Those programs will run, but you can get more problems with win7. They moved away from backward compatibility to a large extent, which they're going to really do with windows 8. This has been a big problem for freeware coders . Winff, for example, still isn't win7 compatible. It's written in an open source Pascal that isn't.

Specifically, Microsoft tech support recommends that you not use any 3rd party codec / splitter packs that modify your registry to point the whole system away from directx et al. Ffdshow is one of those.

I won't use any of those codecs/splitters that bugger up the registry, and programs that don't need them work better. PLus I don't worry about conflicts. Avstodvd was the last program I had that used them and I yanked it. If I want to make a DVD, which I haven't done for a while, I'll probably use avidemux or something similal as a front end for dvdstyler.

I don't mean to dissuade you from win7. Microsoft may still release updates for it but technically they don't support it anymore. Windows 7 isn't the resource hog that Vista is either. I know a couple of tech support people who've installed win7 on 6-7 year old laptops and it runs just fine on them.