DirectShow in VirtualDub?

[vlada]

Hello all,
I have a rather theoretical question. Are there any plans to implement DirectShow support to VirtualDub? I believe there are no free tools to edit MP4 files. Also MKV with h.264 inside are probably not supported in VDM.
Or are there any plans for a new tool similar to VD (or VDM) which would work with DirectShow? How do you see the future?

Thank you,
Vlada

[stephanV]

Since the author of VirtualDub despises DirectShow, I wouldn't get your hopes up too high. Basically, for anything else than playback DirectShow is a mess. It's graph rendering sometimes comes up with quite unexpected results, making a video editor useless. There are too many 3rd party out filters out there that try to steal each other priority and sometimes wrongly so.

On the other hand, for capturing DirectShow (WDM) is currently being implemented, so maybe not all is lost.

[El Enmascarado]

Since the author of VirtualDub despises DirectShow, I wouldn't get your hopes up too high. Basically, for anything else than playback DirectShow is a mess. It's graph rendering sometimes comes up with quite unexpected results, making a video editor useless. There are too many 3rd party out filters out there that try to steal each other priority and sometimes wrongly so.

On the other hand, for capturing DirectShow (WDM) is currently being implemented, so maybe not all is lost.
is WMD directshow? isn't that the same type of capture my video card uses?

[stephanV]

WDM (Windows driver model, not WMD, MS is not that bad ;) ), indeed uses the DirectShow interface and is accesible in VirtualDub since v1.6.

[vlada]

The problem is, that AFAIK, VDM is a dead project and a lot of futures it has are not supported in classic VD. I'm using Matroska container for my movies, so I use VD only as a filter porcessor and for video compression. But it would be nice if I could directly open and save MP4 and MKV files. Let's hope we'll see any solution soon.