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Method 1: Create an AVISynth script If you know how how to use AVISynth, you can simply open different kinds of video formats in VirtualDub. Basically, it works like this: First, you create a simple text document with special commands, called a script. These commands make references to one or more videos and the filters you wish to run on them. After that you run VirtualDub and open the script file. Then VirtualDub doesn't aware that AVISynth is working in the background, but thinks it's directly opening a filtered AVI file.

Download VirtualDub MPEG-2 plugin 4.5: fast downloads for latest versions of VirtualDub-MPEG2. Scroll down the page and look for VirtualDub import plugins/filters. Download the needed plug-ins by clicking on the appropriate link based on the operating system. VirtualDub Tips VirtualDub is a free video capture/processing tool in Windows platforms. Method 2: Download plugins for different formats. VirtualDub is designed for Microsoft Windows but may run on Linux and Mac OS X using Wine. (For example, to use it with the popular Deshaker plugin.

Now let's see how to make the magic happen. Install K-lite Codec Pack and update FFDShow First, ensure that the target file is playable in Windows Media Player. So you need to install the necessary codecs to your computer. Which always provides the latest and complete codecs is just fine. You can select a suitable version and choose the codecs you need.

Then open the target video file with Windows Media Player and it should play. If not, you should to the latest version. Install AVISynth Then download and install, and tick all the options during the installation. Create an AVISynth Script Open NotePad. The Checkered Game Of Life Company. Type DirectShowSource('c:locationtovideo.mp4').

Then replace c:locationtovideo.mp4 with the location to your video file (right click the video file to gain the location). Then go to 'File' >'Save as' >'Save as Type: All files' and name your video file as video.avs. You can now import the video.avs file in Virtualdub. Method 2: Download plugins for different formats Plugins can also handle loading different files formats. You can download the plugin you need, and unpack it into the VirtualDub plugin folder. But remember that those plugins only allow you to load certain file formats.

You cannot save those files in MP4, MOV, FLV and other formats, but in AVI. Here two plugins are recommended: # 1.: The plugin is based, as the name may suggest, of the ffmpeg libraries. It can handle 31 different file formats, among them are the popular MP4, MKV, FLV, MOV, RM, RVMB, WMV and TS. FccHandler: It can handle MPEG-2, FLV, WMV, MKV, FLC as well as AC-3 ACM codec. However, the its website is unavailable at the moment for some reasons. But there are two mirrors with his stuff:,.

In order to open MP4 (and other video files) in VirtualDub you need a plugin called '. Installation: Download the plug in and unzip it in VirtualDub's folder. The ZIP contains two folder one for Windows 32 bit and one for Windows 64 bits.

You can delete the one that you don't need. In my case, the plug in installed looks like this: c: Program Files VirtualDub plugins32 FFInputDriver.vdplugin c: Program Files VirtualDub plugins32 ffdlls avcodec-55.dll c: Program Files VirtualDub plugins32 ffdlls avformat-55.dll c: Program Files VirtualDub plugins32 ffdlls avutil-52.dll c: Program Files VirtualDub plugins32 ffdlls swscale-2.dll This plugin is freeware and open source.

And yes, it also works with H264 (H264 MPEG-4 AVC) movies. Enjoy:) Recommended download. Then the problem is with the codecs not with Virtual Dub. Some people reported problems with Virtual Dub on Win 10 although it should work.

'ffdshow VFW *does* work with VirtualDub in Windows 10, but it seems that some specific formats are not working. Interestingly they are working for encoding.

I wonder if it might have to do with increased BITMAPINFOHEADER validation in the API -- some video codecs do some not quite kosher things with the format structures. No on DirectShow. It's not designed for or suited to editing and tends to be unstable for anything other than streaming playback. I spent a lot of time working on a DirectShow input plugin, and there were lots of problems with decoders that didn't come close to doing precise seeking and had unstable buffering characteristics. The plugin's available if you want to try it, but it tends to have issues if you do edits.