is it possible to crop a WMV file with virtualdub mod?

[sumeshkri]

can we crop a wmv file with virutaldub mod? if not with what soft can we do that? i want to cut some portions on top and bottom of the video where i see some texts( advertisements). it is not on the video. so i think with croping i can avoid the ads.
i would like to ask the learned people what is the difference between virtual dub and virtual dub mod? thanks

[Baldrick]

Use virtualdub with the wmv plugin, http://home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/Plugins/WMV/index.html

Crop under Video->Filters and add the null transform filter and then click on cropping button.

[redwudz]

You could crop most WMV formats with the newest VD versions if you add the WMV plugin, but you would have to output in a different AVI type format. With VirtualDub Mod, you would need to use a AVISynth script to open newer WMV formats. VD Mod is an older modification of VD 1.5 that can open MPEG and a few other video formats, but it still outputs a AVI type file.

If your final output is going to be WMV, you could output as DV-AVI in VirtualDub, and put that back into Windows Movie Maker and convert back to a WMV format. But there will be some quality losses in the conversions. Probably better ways to do that, but I rarely use WMV.

[jagabo]

In VirtualDubMod try the DirectShowSource() template at the bottom of the Open Video File dialog. AviSynth must be installed.

[sumeshkri]

thanks a lot for the suggestions.