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class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">1.10.4.35491<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-d32c707340f7c5939549d50bd5e7f947884be306-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-d32c707340f7c5939549d50bd5e7f947884be306-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960874?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 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class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960874#P1324" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">Assembly language</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Video_editing_software" title="Video editing software">Video editing software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPL-2.0-or-later</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.virtualdub.org/">www<wbr />.virtualdub<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960874#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>VirtualDub</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> <a href="/wiki/Video_capture" title="Video capture">video capture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_processing" title="Video processing">video processing</a> utility for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> written by Avery Lee. It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression. It uses <a href="/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" title="Audio Video Interleave">AVI</a> <a href="/wiki/Container_format_(digital)" class="mw-redirect" title="Container format (digital)">container format</a> to store captured video.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first version of VirtualDub, written for <a href="/wiki/Windows_95" title="Windows 95">Windows 95</a>, to be released on <a href="/wiki/SourceForge" title="SourceForge">SourceForge</a> was uploaded on August 20, 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, the third-party software print guide <i>Learning VirtualDub</i> referred to VirtualDub as "the leading free Open Source video capture and processing tool".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to its "powerful"<sup id="cite_ref-SDA_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> versatility and usefulness especially in the field of video processing (see below), <i><a href="/wiki/PC_World" title="PC World">PC World</a></i> has referred to VirtualDub as "something of a '<a href="/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop" title="Adobe Photoshop">Photoshop</a>' for video files",<sup id="cite_ref-PCWorld_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCWorld-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>PC Perspective</i> recommends it for its low <a href="/wiki/Overhead_(computing)" title="Overhead (computing)">overhead</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PCPersp_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCPersp-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Nextmedia" title="Nextmedia">nextmedia</a>'s <i>PC & Tech Authority</i> particularly praises it for its <i>Direct stream copy</i> feature to avoid generational degradation of video quality when performing simple editing and trimming tasks and the fact that VirtualDub "offers several valuable features that other packages lack, and helps you get quick results without any fuss or patronising wizards".<sup id="cite_ref-PCTech_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCTech-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>VirtualDub is recommended for use by professional computer and tech magazines, guides, and reviewers such as <i>PC World</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-PCWorld_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCWorld-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>PC & Tech Authority</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-PCTech_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCTech-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>PC Perspective</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-PCPersp_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCPersp-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> technologies guide website <i>MakeTechEasier</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> freeware and open source software review site <a href="/wiki/Ghacks" title="Ghacks">Ghacks</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Speed_Demos_Archive" title="Speed Demos Archive">Speed Demos Archive</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SDA_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as third-party professional video production companies,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the creators of <a href="/wiki/Wine_(software)" title="Wine (software)">Wine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several hundred third-party plug-ins for VirtualDub exist,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including by professional software companies.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Debugmode_Wax&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Debugmode Wax (page does not exist)">Debugmode Wax</a> allows use of VirtualDub plug-ins in professional video editing software such as <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro" title="Adobe Premiere Pro">Adobe Premiere Pro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vegas_Pro" title="Vegas Pro">Vegas Pro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub is designed for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> but may run on <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a> using <a href="/wiki/Wine_(software)" title="Wine (software)">Wine</a> (for example, to use it with the popular Deshaker plugin).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, native support for these systems is not available. </p><p>VirtualDub was made to operate exclusively on <a href="/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" title="Audio Video Interleave">AVI</a> files; however, a plugin API was added from version 1.7.2 which allows the import of other formats.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Appropriate video and audio <a href="/wiki/Codec" title="Codec">codecs</a> need to be installed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_capture">Video capture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Video capture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub supports both <a href="/wiki/DirectShow" title="DirectShow">DirectShow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_for_Windows" title="Video for Windows">Video for Windows</a> for video capture. Capture features include capture to any AVI variant, audio <a href="/wiki/VU_meter" title="VU meter">VU meters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Video_overlay" title="Video overlay">overlay</a> and preview modes, <a href="/wiki/Histogram" title="Histogram">histogram</a>, selectable <a href="/wiki/Cropping_(image)" title="Cropping (image)">crop</a> area, video <a href="/wiki/Noise_reduction" title="Noise reduction">noise reduction</a>, auto stop settings (based on capture time, file size, free space, and/or dropped frames), and designate alternate drive(s) for capture overflow. </p><p>VirtualDub can help overcome problems with <a href="/wiki/Digital_camera" title="Digital camera">digital cameras</a> that also record video. Many models,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="Who says this? (September 2014)">weasel words</span></a></i>]</sup> especially Canon,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2014)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> record in an <a href="/wiki/M-JPEG" class="mw-redirect" title="M-JPEG">M-JPEG</a> format incompatible with <a href="/wiki/Sony_Vegas" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Vegas">Sony Vegas</a> 6.0 and 7.0. Saving AVI files as "old-style AVI" files allows them to appear in Vegas. </p><p>VirtualDub supports <a href="/wiki/DV_(video_format)" title="DV (video format)">DV</a> capture from Type 2 (VfW) <a href="/wiki/FireWire" class="mw-redirect" title="FireWire">FireWire</a> controllers only (It cannot work with Type 1). There is no DV batch capture, still image capture, or DV device control capability. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_assembly">Video assembly</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Video assembly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub can create a video file from a series of image files in <a href="/wiki/Truevision_TGA" title="Truevision TGA">Truevision TGA</a> or <a href="/wiki/BMP_file_format" title="BMP file format">Windows Bitmap</a> file formats. Individual frames must be given file names numbered in sequential order without any gaps (e.g. 001.bmp, 002.bmp, 003.bmp..). From those, the frame rate can be adjusted, and other modifications such as the addition of a <a href="/wiki/Soundtrack" title="Soundtrack">soundtrack</a> can be made. </p><p>VirtualDub can also disassemble a video by extracting its soundtracks saving its frames into Truevision TGA or Windows Bitmap files. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editing">Editing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Editing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub can delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments. Appended segments must have similar audio and <a href="/wiki/Video_format" class="mw-redirect" title="Video format">video formats</a>, dimensions, number of <a href="/wiki/Audio_channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio channel">audio channels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frame_rate" title="Frame rate">frame rates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sampling_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sampling rate">sampling rates</a>. Otherwise, VirtualDub is incapable of mixing dissimilar video files or adding <a href="/wiki/Film_transition" title="Film transition">transition effects</a> between segments. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_processing">Video processing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Video processing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub comes with a number of video editing components known as "filters". They can perform basic tasks as arbitrary resize, converting the video to <a href="/wiki/Grayscale" title="Grayscale">grayscale</a>, arbitrary rotation, crop, or changing simple values like brightness and contrast. Filters may be used during the video assembly as well. Filter plug-ins further extend VirtualDub's capabilities. A plug-in <a href="/wiki/Software_development_kit" title="Software development kit">SDK</a> is available for developers to create their own video and audio filters.<sup id="cite_ref-sdk_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sdk-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides those basic features, its many third-party plug-ins make VirtualDub a "powerful"<sup id="cite_ref-SDA_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDA-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> open-source tool when it comes to linear video processing, and in fact most of the hundreds of third-party plug-ins available for VirtualDub are filters related to either aesthetic effects or cleaning, fixing, and restoring image quality, such as various denoising and sharpening methods targeted especially at analogue and digital video signal and film defects (be they related to <a href="/wiki/VHS" title="VHS">VHS</a>, faulty cables, a distorted analogue <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_television" title="Terrestrial television">terrestrial</a> or <a href="/wiki/Satellite_television" title="Satellite television">satellite</a> TV reception, or <a href="/wiki/Compression_artifact" title="Compression artifact">digital compression</a>), <a href="/wiki/Deinterlacing" title="Deinterlacing">deinterlacing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Field_(video)" title="Field (video)">fields</a> manipulation, <a href="/wiki/Color_space" title="Color space">colorspace</a> conversion and manipulation, <a href="/wiki/Telecine#Reverse_telecine_(a.k.a._inverse_telecine_(IVTC),_reverse_pulldown)" title="Telecine">reverse telecine</a> aka IVTC, deflickering, deshaking, adding and removing logos and subtitles, analysis of video content, etc. </p><p>All of these processing features are fully <a href="/wiki/Batch_processing" title="Batch processing">batchable</a> to apply the same effects on a large number of files. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VirtualDub is <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a>, released under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU GPL-2.0-or-later</a> and hosted on <a href="/wiki/SourceForge.net" class="mw-redirect" title="SourceForge.net">SourceForge.net</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg/220px-VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg/330px-VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg/440px-VirtualDub2-screen-filter1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="824" /></a><figcaption>VirtualDub2 screenshot</figcaption></figure> <p>VirtualDub was originally created by the author, then a college student, for the purpose of compressing <a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a> videos of <i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon" title="Sailor Moon">Sailor Moon</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-alee_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alee-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was written to read and write <a href="/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" title="Audio Video Interleave">AVI</a> videos, but support for input plug-ins was added, enabling it to read additional formats including <a href="/wiki/MPEG-2" title="MPEG-2">MPEG-2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matroska" title="Matroska">Matroska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flash_Video" title="Flash Video">Flash Video</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Media" title="Windows Media">Windows Media</a>, <a href="/wiki/QuickTime" title="QuickTime">QuickTime</a>, <a href="/wiki/MP4" class="mw-redirect" title="MP4">MP4</a> and others. Development stopped as of 2013 <sup id="cite_ref-last_release_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-last_release-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the site's forums closed down in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>VirtualDub has spawned several <a href="/wiki/Fork_(software_development)" title="Fork (software development)">forks</a>, including <a href="/wiki/VirtualDubMod" title="VirtualDubMod">VirtualDubMod</a> and <i>Nandub</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="VirtualDub2">VirtualDub2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: VirtualDub2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The latest fork is called <b>VirtualDub2</b> (formerly VirtualDub FilterMod).<sup id="cite_ref-filtermod-commits_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filtermod-commits-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has all the features of the original VirtualDub, plus support for high bit-depth (i.e., <a href="/wiki/Deep_color" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep color">deep color</a>). It is no longer limited to <a href="/wiki/Video_for_Windows" title="Video for Windows">Video for Windows</a> (Video Compression Manager) codecs, and AVI format limitations (such as limited VBR support, H.264/HEVC minor incompatibilities etc.). </p><p>VirtualDub2 has built-in encode/decode of any container and video and audio compression formats supported by <a href="/wiki/FFmpeg" title="FFmpeg">FFmpeg</a> (<a href="/wiki/H.264" class="mw-redirect" title="H.264">H.264</a>, HEVC, VP9, AAC, Opus and other formats) and can open and save <a href="/wiki/QuickTime_File_Format" title="QuickTime File Format">QuickTime File Format</a> (MOV), <a href="/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14" class="mw-redirect" title="MPEG-4 Part 14">MP4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matroska" title="Matroska">Matroska</a>, <a href="/wiki/WebM" title="WebM">WebM</a>, AVI based on FFmpeg or only the audio from a video in M4A, Opus in Matroska, Ogg Opus, Vorbis, AAC or MP3 formats.<sup id="cite_ref-filtermod-wiki_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filtermod-wiki-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (August 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>It also has improved navigation, display and user interface (e.g. pan display when zoomed in, color format selection), improved performance, and support for high bit-depth color formats.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Past_legal_issues">Past legal issues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VirtualDub&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Past legal issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early versions of VirtualDub supported importing of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format" title="Advanced Systems Format">Advanced Systems Format</a>, but this was removed in version 1.3d following an informal phone call from a Microsoft employee in 2000 claiming that it infringed one of Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Patent" title="Patent">patents</a>. 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href="/wiki/Abmahnung" title="Abmahnung">cease and desist letters</a> from a private individual that claimed to have German <a href="/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark">word mark</a> on "VirtualDub".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However this issue has been resolved: the word mark in Germany has been deleted<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an injunction has been granted against the former owner of said word mark.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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