Version History of VirtualDub 1.6.1 [features added]
Rewrote command line parsing so that arguments to /s, /p, and /b no longer require the parameters to be adjacent to the switch.
New /i (invoke) command line flag runs a script and passes additional parameters to it, which are available as VirtualDub.params[n].
Unescaped, native-coded strings can now be embedded in a script using U\"...\" syntax. In particular, this allows filenames to be inserted directly from a batch file.
The Abort button on the dub status dialog now confirms by default for non-preview operations; this can be disabled in Preferences.
[bugs fixed]
\"AVIFile compatibility mode\" no longer needs to be manually checked in extended AVI options when opening Avisynth scripts.
JPEG output mode now properly checks that the output format is set to 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit RGB.
Fixed incompatibilities with some custom UI shells that subclass application windows.
DV audio settings are now derived from the first frame rather than the header, which is sometimes incorrect.
Fixed crash when attempting to append or check info on a DV type-1 AVI file.
Removed prototype \"triangular resize\" filter.
Jump To Frame dialog now takes source rate adjustments into account.
Fixed some errant cases of \"invalid handle\" errors when files could not be found.
Fixed decoding errors when rendering from an image sequence and the timeline format was customized to have frame byte size information.
Image sequences didn\'t load properly if the numeric part of the filename was too large (>2^31).
(AMD64 only) Fixed crash when loading scripts with filters that had more than one configuration parameter.
[regressions fixed]
Fix for timeline sometimes getting trashed after starting the frame server.
Fix for erroneous first frame if first frame is displayed when starting Direct-mode render.
Fix for bad parameters being sent down to video codec if codec\'s native decompression format is paletted or no compatible RGB format is supported.
Preference settings common to 1.5.10 or earlier weren\'t saving properly in the Registry.
Wave sources weren\'t taking effect immediately.
Fixed crash on filter crop set script commands.
Added the selection start/end markers to the new timeline control (sheesh).
Fixed volume setting warping when saving job entries.
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.
