VirtualDub 1.9.9 Released
VirtualDub version 1.9.9 is a maintenance release of a stable version. It fixes several bugs, including several in the core filtering engine and a couple are in the AVI and Huffyuv handling code. As usual for a stable release, there are no new features other than a small diagnostic one (log specific errors when plugins fail to load on startup).
The developer shared some of the developer’s future plan, development difficulty and respond of some of the requests.
… one of the big issues with VirtualDub right now is lack of support for more advanced video formats. VirtualDub’s development model depends on an abstraction between specific video formats and the core program for various reasons, relating to legal, maintenance, and simple complexity problems … I cannot and will not take a dependency on an external library to handle formats, nor can I implement them directly.
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There is a strong misconception that not taking advantage of multiple cores is a bug that requires a ten minute fix, and this notion really needs to be dispelled: writing correctly multithreaded software is hard with standard programming paradigms and that's a major problem that the software industry is currently facing.
I do have a couple of plans ... video codecs that produce only key frames can be parallelized ... it is possible to run different video filters in the same chain concurrently ...
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualDub 1.9.9 was released on 09 April 2010, and download is available now.
VirtualDub is streamlined for fast linear operations over video, however, it lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
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