Virtualdub2: Is there comparable editor for Linux?

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For years I quite often use Virtualdub2 for indeep video editing.
It's about restoration, improving in any kind
(colors, brightness, contrast, stabilizing (HQ using FoV),
deinterlacing, fps change, ... you name it).
Using many kind of external filters, sometimes even avisynth.

Now I'm changing to Linux and wonder if there is an editor
which allow indeep manipulation like VirtualDub2.

I found Kdenlive, Shotcut and OpenShot.
But all of them seem to more about handling many videos/ tracks
at once, offering only restricted filter abilities.

If you know what I'm about: Can anyone tell me if there is
a good substitude for Virtualdub2?
Or should I stick at it, using it per Wine?

TIA! :)

[richardpl]

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Did this thread get bumped to the top and then edited, or has it just been sitting at the top and I hadn't noticed?

I thought I'd mention I've been running VirtualDub2 in Wine for a while without any problems. As is the case for Windows if you want to save video using "Direct Stream Copy" you need to have the relevant codecs installed otherwise it uses ffmpeg to decode to a raw video stream. I don't think I've installed any codecs other than ffdshow. In a 64 bit Wine prefix the 64 bit flavours of VitualDub2 and ffdshow work well for me.

Having said that I'm using Wine version 8.12, but I decided to be adventurous a while back and upgrade to version nine point something and a couple of the programs I have installed weren't at all happy, so success may be dependent on the version of Wine you're using.

While I'm here.... I try to inflict this information on everyone I can, as even the Wine site doesn't offer instructions on how to create a desktop file (shortcut) that'll work as a shortcut in a file manager's SendTo menu, or not crap out when it's used via the "open with" menu. Here's what a desktop file that'll work in those situations looks like (change the file path accordingly):

[Desktop Entry]
Name=VirtualDub2
Comment=
Type=Application
Icon=/home/Me/.local/share/icons/VirtualDub2.png
Exec=env sh -c "winepath -w -0 %f | WINEPREFIX='/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64' xargs -0 wine start /Unix '/home/Me/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win64/drive_c/Program Files/VirtualDub2/VirtualDub64.exe' /s default.vdscript"
StartupWMClass=VirtualDub64.exe
Categories=AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;

Edit:
%f means only the first file selected is opened via the SendTo menu.
%F opens all the selected files, assuming the program expected to open them doesn't mind.

PS There's a native Linux flavour of Avidemux. For some reason though, it displays the timestamp for each frame but doesn't calculate/display frame numbers as VirtualDub2 does.