Virtual Dub Mod versions: which is best to use today?

[loninappleton]

Videohelp shows a number of versions of Virtual Dub Mod.

One was referenced here in one of my threads with a link I no longer can find.

Then videohelp lists 1.7.8 Virtual Dub Mod Plus and some others.

Which is best used for a beginner such as myself?

The reason for asking is my Virtual Dub Mod 1.5.10.03 beta fails to find some associations but the one that comes inside Auto GK ( a bit older as I recall) runs ok. Sometimes there seems to be a nesting problem where the auto.exe has to be run to get the program going rather than the main program icon.

Is there an easier better and simpler install? Please include any dll or other dependencies that may cause a crash. Also how AVI Synth installs should be handled or upgraded if at all.

I am just learning how to handle this program with onlly a few of its features.

[DarrellS]

IMO, no VirtualdubMod version is good to use today. Maybe if someone modded the new version with all the plugins already in the plugins folder and an external encoder folder with all the commandline encoders and a vdprof file to make it easy for all the beginners to use without tracking them down themselves.

VirtualdubMod has not been updated in six years. Most of the Mod developers gave up their versions to help make Virtualdub what it is today. Especially fcchandler who has created most of the input plugins and a few ACM files. The newest version of Virtualdub 1.10.3 (and all the BETA versions) will do what the old modded versions only wished they could do. Although frameserving is still part of Virtualdub, it's a thing of the past with the external encoder feature and being able to use filters in blend mode with the curve editor to make transitions and either smart render to avi or encode to MPEG2, x264/ac3/mkv or x264/aac/mp4 or other file types with command line encoders makes this the best free editor on the market.

If you're going to learn to use Virtualdub then you might as well learn how to use the best version before anyone has a chance to tell you that it's too complicated to learn. I don't remember Virtualdub being hard to learn when I first started using it thirteen years ago. MOF, it seemed way easier to learn than all the expensive pay software that everyone was urging me to use.

[loninappleton]

Thanks for the clarification. I'll try the version you show standalone to do a couple of simple tasks I'm just learning how to do. If the program is the same then these tasks, specifically installing a new audio track to replace the old, should work properly.

[DarrellS]

Under Audio > Audio from other file.

[loninappleton]

I do not see the version you mention on the download list.

Virtualdub 1.3c and some other stuff turns up on search but not 1.10.3.

Show a direct link if possible.

[loninappleton]

Update.

I looked around a bit and found that the 64bit experimental version won'y run on System32. Sourceforge has the version 1.9 (plus 5 digit build number) which loads for me.

I'll give that one a whirl.

Thanks for answering. I don't know if I'm ready to do another upgrade of hardware yet.

[Selur]

for 1.10.x build look over at http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/files/virtualdub-experimental/ which all experimental builds

[DarrellS]

Version 1.10.3 final was released December of last year but I guess it's still experimental. 1.10.4 will probably be the next stable release.

1.10.4-test10 is the latest experimental which I'm using. Most people don't want to use the experimental versions but they have all the latest updates and bug fixes. 1.10.3 experimental was first released over two years ago so any version after 1.9.11 would be fine to use. You don't install Virtualdub but unzip it to a drive or folder (I use C:\Unzipped\ where I keep all my unzipped programs) and just delete the Virtualdub folder to get rid of it. I copy the contents of the old Plugins folder to the new Plugins folder when I download a new version.

Sourceforge seems to be down right now so the direct links are...

Version 1.9.11

https://www.videohelp.com/download/VirtualDub-1.9.11.zip

Version 1.10.3

https://www.videohelp.com/download/VirtualDub-1.10.3.zip

Version 1.10.4-test10

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/VirtualDub-1.10.4-test10.zip

I'm running XP Pro 32bit but even if I had a 64bit OS, I'd still use the 32bit version of Virtualdub since it has better plugin compatabilty.

I would download all of fcchandler's plugins and his aacacm and ac3acm codecs (all plugins go in Virtualdub's Plugins32 folder).

http://gral.y0.pl/~fcchandler/index.html

phaeron's DirectshowInputDriver (for any file type that you can't open directly. Also goes in the Plugins32 folder))

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/DShowInputDriver-0.93.zip

ffdshow and select liavcodec for any file type that you don't have a decoder for (h264, all flv &vpx,) and wmv9 for all wmv under VFW Configuration.

https://www.videohelp.com/download/ffdshow_rev4515_20130612_clsid.exe

you'll probably also wan't a decoder for wma. I just install the DivX3.11 codec but you could download just the audio decoder.

https://www.videohelp.com/download/divx_3.11alpha.zip or https://www.videohelp.com/download/DivXAudioCompressor_4.02.zip



...here is a guide for using the external encoder feature...

http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=18840&

[loninappleton]

Your link to 1.10.3 loaded successfully on my WinXP. I will look at the plugins and do that next.