Missing Codec Vp6f Virtualdub Deshaker

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Missing Codec Vp6f Virtualdub Deshaker. Posted on 3/25/2018. Select a video codec (menu. (such as 'precise bicubic' in VirtualDub) after Deshaker. The 'MISSING CODEC (AVC1)' error in the 32-bit version of VirtualDub,. An enhanced version of the original VirtualDub. You can get visibility into the health and performance of your Cisco ASA environment in a single dashboard.

Virtualdub is showing 'missing codec' when I play a WMV movie even though the WMV plugin is in the plugins directory


According to Virtualdub, 'the WMV plugin only reads the data from WMV/ASF files, it does not include the decoders. VirtualDub uses VfW Codecs only, so you need a suitable VfW Decoder. DirectShow filters, as used by WMPlayer don’t work here'. One way to tackle this problem is to install ffdshow-tryouts and make sure you enable the WMV decoders under 'VFW Configuration' -> 'Decoder' -> 'Codecs'. You can find ffdshow-tryoutshere.
In my case however, I know that I have the ffdshow decoders since I use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema which comes bundled with the K-Lite Codec Pack. So I did not want to go and re-install the ffdshow decoders all over again. In this case I clicked on [Start] - [All Programs] - [K-Lite Codec Pack]- [Configurations] - [ffdshow VFW interface]. You should see something like this after selecting the Codecs menu:

I simply scrolled down to WMV3/9 and clicked on the Decoder to switch it from 'disabled' to 'libavcodec'. After restarting Virtualdub, I was able to see the WMV movie.
NOTE:There is a similar configuration menu under 'ffdshow decoder configuration' that looks identical to the screen shot shown above. Changing the WMV3/9 format over there will not resolve the problem. You have to do it using the 'ffdshow VFW inteface' as shown above.

Working with image sequences

Time to actually post something for users and not just developers.

To reading a series of numbered images as a video stream, use File > Open video file.. and select the first image. VirtualDub will automatically step the filename and find any sequentially numbered frames after the starting file. You can open BMPs and TARGA files this way. Starting with VirtualDub 1.6.0, you can also sequential JPEGs and single files. Pesedit 2013 patch 6.0. In 1.6.2, you can also open non-interlaced PNG. Once the sequence has loaded, use Video > Frame Rate to set the correct frame rate for the sequence.

Deshaker

To exporting a video segment as a sequence of numbered images on disk in VirtualDub, use File > Save Image Sequence. What you may not know is that nearly all of the regular video processing modes are still enabled in this mode. This includes video format, frame rate decimation/conversion, filtering, etc. modes. In particular, if you only want to write out every fifth frame in the video, simply set frame rate decimation to 'every 5' and you will only get 1/5th of the frames. Similarly, if you are writing out BMPs, you probably want to use no video compression and a normal video format such as 24-bit RGB. (That VirtualDub allows you to write out something silly like MPEG-4 compressed 'BMPs' is actually a misfeature that I need to fix.) For the most part, though, what you see in the preview is what will get written out to disk as images.

Side note:

It isn't well known, but VirtualDub uses the exact same pipeline for all of its rendering operations. That includes AVI, WAV, and image sequence output, as well as.. preview. The primary differences are whether certain outputs are disabled and whether the frame limiter is enabled. I spent a long time ago optimizing the pipeline to overlap I/O and CPU utilization and reduce synchronization overhead for better real-time preview; when you save to disk, the limiter is kicked out and you get the benefits of that work in faster rendering.