VirtualDub is a Free software of video edition linear for Windows. It is developed by Avery Lee, it is distributed according to the terms of the license GNU LPG.

VirtualDub makes it possible to publish a video or a series of images BMP (the name must contain sequence numbers) and to even capture some starting from a chart of acquisition or a chart tuner.

The possible handling simplest is the assembly of the video, the creation of a video starting from images BMP, the extraction of whole or part of the video in images BMP or it (Re) compression of a video in one of codec S (DivX for example) installed on the computer.

In addition to all that, VirtualDub has a pallet of filters vidéos to make handling on the images themselves. For example, it is possible to add a text on images, to put it video in black and white, of video redimensonner it, to correct contrast and the luminosity, etc Internet site of VirtualDub offers a SDK with a tutoriel and examples of filter in order to be able to create others of them. In fact, in addition to the basic filters, others are downloadable on Internet. The examples of filter are in C++ but also out of assembler and with instructions MX for those which want to make simple and fast filters.

VirtualDub also has the functionality of Frameserver, to use with one frameclient (Windows Media Encoder for example), and of frameclient, to use with a frameserver (WinTV2000 for example).

Alternatives

• NanDub is a modified version of VirtualDub allowing the management of several flows (audio or video) where VirtualDub only makes it possible to publish one audio stream and one video stream. Thus it becomes simple to create/publish vidéos containing several tracks sound.
• Avidemux is a clone of VirtualDub functioning under GNU/Linux.

External bonds

• Official site
• Réencoder video with Virtualdub