wine users - Jan 2003 - Running Virtualdub in a fake windows installation

Hello..

I was wondering if anyone could help me run the VirtualDub program on my PC. 
I have Wine 2002-12-19 using a fake windows installation.  I've tried to 
install VirtualDub, divx 4.12 and Radium MP3 codecs using the builtin 
drivers, but VirtualDub doesn't recognize the Divx codec.

Is there any special configuration that I have to use in order to run 
Virtualdub? I have available Windows 98 native dll's if they are necesary.

Thanks for your assistance..

Ronald

On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:53, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> ... VirtualDub doesn't recognize the Divx codec.
Hm, interesting. I'm sure I used to be able to select the divx 5 codec in
the
compression dialog, although I've never actually used it (I remember poking 
around with its settings to see what it could do). I've just tried it and 
sure enough it isn't listed. If I can find the time now the holidays are
over
and I'm back at work, I might try a regression test and find where it 
disappeared.

It's still possible to _open_ divx avi files with it, though...

If you've got zillions of bytes of disk space, or you're only working
with
clips of a few minutes' length, you could export to raw RGB then encode to 
MPEG4 with a native Linux encoder like Mencoder. (Anyone know of a way to 
pipe from vdub into mencoder? I've tried saving into a fifo, but that just 
gives an error.)

Sorry I couldn't suggest anything more practical :-)

Stephen

This should be fixed with the patches I submitted. I'm running 
VirtualDub 1.4.10 with no major problems. However, because not all 
codecs behave well and just listing them could take a few seconds, I 
would advise you to install only those codecs you are really planning to 
use. A good strategy is perhaps installing one audio/video codec at a 
time and removing them as soon as they break down.

Waldeck