VirtualDub Editor's Review

VirtualDub is a pretty good video editing/encoding tool. I've been using it for years and what I can say is the fact that I was quite pleased with it.

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The interface is a little bit classic, but if you like the functionality more that eye candy interfaces this application might be a good option for you.
This application doesn't come with built in or bundled codecs except the support for MPEG 1 standard. It uses the installed codecs from your Windows OS and it is doing a pretty good job because you may select advanced settings to everything. This is working both for video and audio codecs and is including the support for every subset of MPEG 4 standard (DivX, Xvid, WMV, ASF, etc.). If the codec has the support for encoding and not just for decoding then you may use it.
Another thing that I love about this application is the fact that it is more than free, it is OpenSource, so it has the community support. This means lots of useful filters for every encoding activity and even more: a MPEG 2 mod for this application because the original doesn't support this standard. Another thing that is great is the fact that the producers of some well known codec packs are including plugins for this application. One of those packs is ffdshow MPEG 4 decoder. So the application has the support for plugins, filters, everything you want for video encoding activities, just name it.
Another nice thing that the application does is the support for video capture. If your video source is properly installed in your operating system, then VirtualDub may capture the signal from that video source and encode it into a video file that you can store on your hard drive.

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Since the producer is just a single person the application is not perfect. Sometimes it's crashing for a certain reason or from a reason you might never discover. Certain limitations can appear if you are overclocking some of your hardware components. If you do overclock your CPU you might get an unexpected crash or the application simply refuses to do its job.
Pluses: it's an OpenSource application with nice community support, there are a lot of plugins and filters for this application, the fact that it's OpenSource means that you can find mods of this application with extended functionality and less bugs compared to the original. It is very customizable in order to obtain maximum out of it. It has a nice batch converting/encoding module.
Drawbacks / flaws: it's a little buggy, it's hardware depending sometimes (unexpected crashes), the interface looks a little old. The application is sometimes hard to use if you aren't used with video encoding tools. It doesn't check if the audio stream is compatible with the video stream so you might get an unusable output file. I do recommend the use of mp3 audio codec. Another thing that is missing is the complete support for the Apple MOV video format.

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In conclusion: This is a nice, well developed and free application that can suit your own needs for video encoding.
version reviewed: 1.8.1

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Release build -- 1.10.4 (stable), 32-bit (x86) version

This is the current release of VirtualDub for end users, containing the executable and supporting files. Unzip the contents into a new folder and run VirtualDub.exe. (Do not run it directly from the zip file!)

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Server, or newer; 80486 or higher CPU; 16MB of memory. This version will run on both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) versions of Windows. Sorry, but there is no native version for Mac OS X or Linux.

Antivirus software issue: Some versions of McAfee Antivirus have a bug where they report a Dialer-182 spyware infection after running VirtualDub 1.8.x. This is a false alarm caused by an exceptionally poor Registry key matching pattern in McAfee (anything in SoftwareFreeware) which misdetects VirtualDub's stored settings as from a dialer. VirtualDub does not have any malicious code or any dialer logic. Unfortunately, I cannot force McAfee to fix their software. If you are having problems with this, you may need to use 1.9.1+, which has the settings Registry key changed to work around this problem.

Release build -- 1.10.4 (stable), 64-bit (x64) version

This version is compiled specifically for CPUs that support AMD64/x64 long mode, including AMD Athlon 64, AMD Athlon X2, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon CPUs with EM64-T, and Intel Core i7 CPUs. You must have the x64 Extended (64-bit) version of Windows to run the 64-bit version of VirtualDub. You cannot run this version on a 32-bit version of Windows even if your CPU is 64-bit capable.

It is recommended that you use the 32-bit version unless you have a specific need for 64-bit execution, as the 64-bit version cannot use 32-bit codecs or plugins.

Download V1.10.4 (x64 / 64-bit) release build (VirtualDub-1.10.4-AMD64.zip)

Source code -- 1.10.4 (stable)

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You'll want this file to look at the innards of VirtualDub and to recompile the program. All custom tools necessary to build the release executable and help file are included (verinc, mapconv, disasm, and Lina), but you will need the Microsoft Platform SDK and DirectX SDKs, as well as the yasm assembler. You need Visual Studio 2005 Professional to build VirtualDub.

Note: The source code archive is an compressed using the 7-zip compressor.

Past versions

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Are you still running Windows 95? The 1.7.x and subsequent releases require Windows 98, unfortunately. You can still download a 1.6.x release; the last version which will run under Windows 95 is 1.6.19.

To download past releases or to read the change log, go to VirtualDub's file list page on SourceForge.