HowTo install VirtualDub under wine with deshaker plugin

[multismo]

Thanks, I will try it.

multismo

[oldcpu]

• Step-3 : mcf42 . (possibly not needed with deshaker-2.5)
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• Step-4 : Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistrib Package.(possibly not needed with deshaker-2.5)

I installed VirtualDub under wine with the deshakerplugin on my recent openSUSE-11.3 install (on my Intel Core i7 920 PC) and I can confirm I did not need to do these two steps (#4 and #5). VirtualDub is running ok under wine with the deshakerplugin with:

• 64-bit openSUSE-11.3 KDE-4.4.4
• wine-1.2-0.1.1
• VirtualDub-1.9.11-build32842
• Deshaker plugin v.2.6 (2011-01-08)
• FDSHOW beta7_rev3154_20091209.exe
• Xvid-1.2.2-07062009.exe

It does a nice job of stabilizing otherwise shaky videos.

[oldcpu]

... however with the "deshaker" plugin it offers a capability that to the best of my knowledge does not exist in Linux, and hence I thought this worth while.

Having created this guide over a year and a half ago, I would be remiss if I did not point out that recently I had pointed out to me how to stabilize videos using strictly linux applications. There is a blog explaining how to do this with transcode and mplayer: Deshaking videos with Linux

Following that quoted guide, I found it essential to use the " --mplayer_probe" argument, else it would not work for me (with the videos that I was using for an input).

ie First Pass:

transcode -J stabilize --mplayer_probe -i yourmovie.avi

and Second Pass:

transcode -J transform --mplayer_probe -i yourmovie.avi -y raw -o yourstabilizedmovie.avi

I note that I can mostly obtain a better quality stabilization with Virtualdub and wine, but I am still learning how to use the transcode method, and so things could change.

[oldcpu]

In line with the theme of this thread (using VirtualDub under wine to stabilize a video), a MacIntosh ( ! ) friend of mine pointed out this x264 codec : x264vfw - Browse /x264vfw/1_715bm at SourceForge.net which when I run the executeable under wine :

wine x264vfw_1_715bm.exe

installed an x264 encoder and it works under wine with VirtualDub.

This gives me the choice now (in Virtual dub) of choosing either xvid codec output (from above in a previous post using Xvid-1.2.2-07062009.exe) or x264 codec output.