Virtualdubmod fails to start

[Markus WS]

Here is the error message when I try to start it...

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1127/vdmgz9.jpg

What's missing?

Thanks

M

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Did you try to run an up-to-date version of VirtualDub instead of an ancient and abandoned fork?

[Markus WS]

It came from VirtualDubMod_1_5_10_2_All_inclusive.zip, so I guess it is up to date. I downloaded it from sourceforge.net

[neuron2]

You guess wrong. Get the real VirtualDub, not VirtualDubMod.

www.virtualdub.org

[Markus WS]

Right, but the real virtualdub does not support matroska, or does it?

[Dark Shikari]

VirtualdubMod is quite old.

If you need to open Matroska, you can just source it with DirectShowSource() in an Avisynth script, and open the Avisynth script with Virtualdub.

[setarip_old]

@Markus WS


Hi!

Perhaps a damaged/incomplete file.

What is the filesize of your "VirtualDubMod.exe" file? (It should be 908Kb)

Did you place all files and folders from the download, as you should, into the same folder?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Right, but the real virtualdub does not support matroska, or does it?

VirtaulDubMod is a dead project, it was not updated since ages and it's based on an ancient version of VirtualDub.
The Matroska support in VirtualDubMode is so much outdated that even the Matroska web-site does discourage you from using it!

VirtualDub has it an Input-Plugin system now, so any input format can be supported without hacking the core application.
Unfortunately I'm not aware of a MKV input plugin for VirtualDub yet...

Nevertheless you can always use Avisynth input. You can try DirectShowSource() or FFmpegSource() to load MKV files.
Also Avidemux (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126164) might be worth a look, if you used VirtualDub(Mod) before.