This chapter rounded up VirtualDub’s capabilities—you should now be able to run a full encoding job: from capturing to processing, multiplexing, and encoding. You are now fully aware of the possibilities, but feel free to refer back to the steps of each process. In this chapter we learned about the following:
Old and modern codecs
Interoperability—what it is and how it relates to you
Where to get and how to install new codecs
How to compress the audio and video
How to use job control to automate jobs in VirtualDub
How to manually calculate the total audio and video bitrate
How to configure modern codecs
How to use settings of modern MPEG-4 codecs like DivX and XviD
How to multiplex audio and video
That’s it! Good luck with your VirtualDub projects!