VirtualDub

What works

• Interface works quite well.
• Previews (both input and output) surprisingly work better than in Virtualbox.
• Internal filters worked.
• File saving worked.

What does not

The one thing I really needed VirtualDub for: the Deshaker plugin.  It apparently can't load plugins from the filesystem.  The Deshaker plugin doesn't show up in the Filters dialog when placed in the plugins directory.  When attemping to use the Load feature it reports the error, "Cannot load plugin module "C:\Program Files\VirtualDub-1.9.0\plugins\Deshaker.vdf": Module not found."

This works fine in Virtualbox.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Probably 98% of the application (all the filters, the hundreds of options, etc.).

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

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.