Version History of VirtualDub 1.6.2 [features added]
Capture: Improved Unicode support.
Capture: DirectShow video capture support.
Capture: Enhanced volume meter.
Capture: Alternate audio resampling mode for reduced frame drops when resyncing.
Capture: Audio compression now occurs after resampling for better timing.
Capture: Stop hotkeys are no longer system global.
PNG images are now supported for read.
AVI info tags are now supported.
[bugs fixed]
Fixed occasional crash when using DirectX display mode with 8-bit display.
Appending type-1 DV AVIs caused the output AVI to have the wrong stream type.
Fixed rare junk displays when overlay playback is enabled, caused by selection of overlay formats that the bitmap library cannot support conversions to.
Fixed source formatting tags in timeline strings reporting huge frame numbers at the end of the timeline.
Fixed garbage when attempting to convert Pal8 to Y8.
[regressions fixed]
Fixed slowdown in shuttle commands.
24-bit video depth settings in configuration files saved from 1.5.x were being imported as 16-bit.
Fixed crash when switching to frameserver mode.
Fixed crash when attempting to finalize AVI file after a disk full or file size error.
Fixed expression evaluation errors in scripting language.
Fixed intermitted crash in Preferences dialog related to enable links.
Fixed crash when attempting to play 8-bit paletted AVI files.
About:
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.
