VirtualDub

What works

Runs, opens files. Installed XviD codec with exe and Vdub could read Xvids no problem. Sound works.

What does not

Screen goes black when you open a video, this can be avoided by going to "Options->Preferences->Display" and unticking DirectX.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Did not test encoding, only previewing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

So far so good. Following overrides and configs were done in virtualdub to get things working:

1. Go to ~/.wine/ and make system.ini with the following contents:

[drivers32] vidc.XVID=xvid.dll

That is for recognizing xvid as a codec after installing.

2. Then to avoid an out of bounds exception, go to Options->Preferences->Display and untick Use DirectX for display panes.

3. Press F9 and F10 or disable both input and output preview panes under View menu.

To have a context menu in KDE (e.g. Dolphin):

• add the following file:
  ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/virtualdub.service 
  (in KDE 5 moved to ~./local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus)

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=video/*
Actions=Virtualdub;
#X-KDE-Submenu=Virtualdub
#X-KDE-Submenu[de]=
Encoding=UTF8

[Desktop Action Virtualdub]
Name=Compress using Virtualdub
Icon=video
Exec=~/bin/virtualdub.sh ~/path/default-compression.vcf "%f"

• create a "default-compression.vcf" somewhere by Save processing settings... from Virtualdub. (includes current filters and codec settings)
• add the following file, make it executable
  ~/bin/virtualdub.sh
  

#!/bin/bash

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine
WINE=/usr/bin/wine 
VDUB=~$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Progs/VirtualDub/VirtualDub.exe

VCF=$(winepath -w "$1")
JOBS=$(winepath -w ~/path/virtualdub.jobs)
VIDEO=$(winepath -w "$2")

#echo $WINE $VDUB /master $JOBS /s $VCF $VIDEO
$WINE $VDUB /master $JOBS /s $VCF $VIDEO

If you don't need compression presets, you may remove all VCF stuff. If you want to use the default JOBS file, you may remove all JOBS stuff.