VirtualDubMod
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VirtualDubMod is an open source
Open source
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 video capture and linear processing tool for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
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. It is based on Avery Lee's VirtualDub
VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee.It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression...

, and is licensed under the GPL
GNU General Public License
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. VirtualDubMod is hosted on SourceForge
SourceForge
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 and is at version 1.5.10.2 (released 29 August 2005).

History

Version 1.5.10.2 build 2542 was released on 21 February 2006. VirtualDub's author, which hosts VirtualDubMod's forums, deduced the development of the tool seems to have been abandoned
Abandonware
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. A version labeled as "VirtualDubMod 1.6.0.0 SURROUND", dated 9 April 2006, was released by a company called Aud-X. A Version 1.5.10.3 build 2550 has been released by VirtualDub-Fr

Features

Compared to VirtualDub, VirtualDubMod has additional features as it is the merging of several specialized versions of VirtualDub posted on the Doom9
Doom9
Doom9 is a website featuring information on digital audio and video manipulation, mostly video, and digital copyrights. It is also the forum username of the author of the page, an Austrian then college student at the time of the creation of the site...

 forums. Added features include Matroska
Matroska
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows...

 support, MPEG-2
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission...

 support, and Ogg Theora support.

One notable feature that is missing in the current version is the ability to program timed video captures, which was present in the VirtualDub modification VirtualDubVCR.

See also

  • Avidemux
    Avidemux
    Avidemux is a free and open-source video editing program designed for video editing and video processing. It is written in C++, and uses either the GTK+ or Qt.- Features :...

     - a cross platform program similar to VirtualDub, available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
  • VirtualDub
    VirtualDub
    VirtualDub is a video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee.It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression...

  • Doom9
    Doom9
    Doom9 is a website featuring information on digital audio and video manipulation, mostly video, and digital copyrights. It is also the forum username of the author of the page, an Austrian then college student at the time of the creation of the site...


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