Running Virtualdub in a fake windows installation

[Stephen Mollett]

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