VirtualDubMod was an
open-source
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video capture
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and
processing
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tool for
Microsoft Windows
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, based on Avery Lee's
VirtualDub
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.
History
Version 1.5.10.2 (build 2542) was released on 21 February 2006. VirtualDub's author, which hosts VirtualDubMod's forums, claimed that development had been
abandoned
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. A version labeled as "VirtualDubMod 1.6.0.0 SURROUND", dated 9 April 2006, was released by a company called Aud-X. A Version 1.5.10.3 build 2550 was released by VirtualDub-Fr.
Features
VirtualDubMod merged several specialized
forks
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of VirtualDub posted on the
Doom9
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forums. Added features included
Matroska
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(MKV) support,
OGM
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support, and
MPEG-2
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support.
One notable feature that remains missing in VirtualDubMod is the ability to program timed video captures, which was present in one VirtualDub fork called VirtualDubVCR.
Despite the abandonment of development of VirtualDubMod, some of its features can be added to VirtualDub through input plugins and
ACM codec
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s provided by users on VirtualDub forums.
See also
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Avidemux
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- a cross platform program similar to VirtualDub, available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
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