Version History of VirtualDub 1.6.5 [features added]
Script: Added Sylia.Atoi(), Atol(), and Atod() functions to allow conversions from string to value.
Script: Added VirtualDub.Log(string) command to output to log output (or console).
Added vdub.exe launcher for basic command-line driven operation.
Added multiple undo/redo for timeline edits.
Added /? switch to list command-line options.
Added support for reading paletted BMPs.
Dub input format is now reported in the log.
[bugs fixed]
Script: Binary operators sometimes promoted the wrong way, i.e. double + int -> int.
Script: The old form of the Open() command didn\'t choose the right driver when a specific driver was requested, due to sorting by priority.
Script: Fixed random crash when adding video filters after opening a video file.
Script: Fixed crash when issuing SaveWAV() command with no audio stream.
Capture: Fixed race condition induced random crash when RGB filtering and accelerated preview were both enabled.
Capture: Capture stats were not updated while frame dropping was occurring, which sometimes made it hard to diagnose timing problems.
Capture: Added adjustable limit on length of burst inserts when timing anomalies occur, to prevent the app from locking permanently on a very bad timing glitch.
Capture: Audio device was not auto-saved.
Capture: Fixed crash when attempting to capture with an unsupported video format (MPEG-1/2, interleaved DV, etc.).
MPEG-1 video decoder occasionally glitched due to a missing end tag.
Removed dumb debug code that was causing a \"???\" message box to appear when unrecognized command-line flags are seen.
Fixed display panes not always updating properly.
Fixed rare crash if an MPEG-1 open failed extremely early.
Fixed cases where the render start/end point wasn\'t updated properly when a selection bound was used to \"push\" the other, i.e. \"set end\" before start, or vice versa.
Paste (Ctrl+V) wasn\'t deleting the current selection before doing the insert.
Hex editor: Scroll bar thumb wasn\'t reset to top when loading a new file.
Fixed a bunch of busted paletted converters.
Fixed dialogs that had swapped OK/Cancel buttons.
Fixed conflicting accelerator for Audio > Conversion menu option.
Fast recompress mode now tests source format before UYVY and YUY2.
Y8 AVIs weren\'t accepted even though they could be generated.
[regressions fixed]
Capture: \"Hide on capture\" now works.
Capture: Preview/overlay display commands toggle once again.
Priority drop-downs in preferences didn\'t have vertical scroll bars.
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
An exciting history of VirtualDub startup can be found here.
