Version History of VirtualDub 1.5.3 [features added]
Added preview input/output commands to menu and
accelerator tables.
Program close allowed during a preview operation.
[changes]
Tweaked job control behavior for jobs that complete
with warnings, to be a bit more intuitive.
[bugs fixed]
Frame marking didn\'t always mark the correct range and
could cause \"Scan for bad frames\" to fail.
Fixed invalid batch scripts produced when video codec
has a config struct larger than ~6K (Windows Media 9
VCM).
Status markers were being logged as warnings in jobs.
Conversion to a higher frame rate produced amusing
results in Direct video mode. It now produces source
frames interspersed with drop frames for nearly zero-
cost point upsampling of video.
Dubber pretended there was a input-to-output lag if
such filters existed in the video chain (temporal
smoother), even if the filters weren\'t active. This
resulting in duplicated frames (fast/normal) or
erroneous zero-byte keyframes (direct) at the end of
the output.
Arbitrary framerate conversion option wasn\'t disabled
in the UI when IVTC was enabled (the two are mutually
exclusive).
Edit point seeks (<, >) didn\'t update the frame
windows.
[regression bugs fixed]
Fixed pipeline not getting flushed at end of
operation, resulting in some frames getting lost.
Fixed subset code pulling in wrong frames in direct
mode.
Interleaving values were inverted and thus always
forced one-per-frame.
Position slider wasn\'t updating properly around cuts.
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.
