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Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video

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Learning VirtualDub: The Complete Guide to Capturing, Processing and Encoding Digital Video

Overview of this book

VirtualDub is one of the most popular video processing applications for Windows. As an open source application, it's free, and is constantly updated and expanded by an active community of developers and experts. VirtualDub is particularly popular for capturing video from analogue sources such as video tape, cleaning up the image and compressing it ready for distribution over the Internet. This book provides a rapid and easy to use tutorial to the basic features of VirtualDub to get you up and running quickly. It explains how to capture great quality video from various sources, use filters to clean up the captured image and add special effects. The book also shows how to use VirtualDub to cut and paste video to remove or insert sequences, including removing ad breaks or trailers. It goes on to cover the art of effective encoding and compression, so you end up with great quality videos that won't hog your bandwidth forever. VirtualDub is the fastest and most effective way to capture, process and encode video on your PC. This book gets you started fast, and goes on to give you full control of all the features of this legendary tool.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning VirtualDub
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Setting Up the VirtualDub Frameserver


Both AviSynth and the VirtualDub frameserver are very easy to set up. For VirtualDub:

  • Locate auxsetup.exe in the directory where VirtualDub lies.

  • Double-click on auxsetup.exe.

  • Click on Install handler. The following dialog will pop up.

  • Click OK.

  • VirtualDub will let you know if the installation was successful or not:

If you later want to remove the frameserver for any reason, you can click on Uninstall handler. Press Exit to exit the utility.

The frameserver works by writing a file with the .vdr extension. Whenever you open the file with another application, VirtualDub will process the frames and then pass them on. Some applications will attempt to force an .avi extension while opening files and are therefore unable to receive frames from the VirtualDub frameserver.

For this reason, VirtualDub also features a proxy mode. When in proxy mode, the VirtualDub frameserver will be placed on top of the AVI handler of Windows. When frames from an AVI file are requested...