VfW vs Directshow (programming quest) only, encouraged, software, anything

andy

If I encode into AVC with vdub, why can't vdub create the file in whatever container?

I mean... why is a video editing software attached to the vfw o DS system to create a file?

Or the VfW/DS issue is about decoding, not encoding?

Thanks.

I'm not sure what you are talking about. But first of all you can't encode in anything but avi with vdub because that's the only container this program supports, has nothing to do with VFW. VdubMod however can. Of course, you are encouraged to NOT use VFW for x264, but one of the dedicated GUIs, since VFW is old and obsolete. And as for editing software being attached to VFW, I'm not sure, maybe you should ask this in the mpeg4 avc forum.

virtualdub only supports .avi output

if you want to have another container as output you need to use a better tool (eg x264's own encoder, eg via megui)

I meant Vdubmod. ^_^

I asked that because of the vfw/DS issue discussed in AVC's forum. They say AVI should not be longer considered as the ideal format. AVC should be in MP4 or MKV. So... if Vdubmod  outputs MKV..... what's the problem?

Thanks.

there are two types of mkv:
- native mkv which stores avc streams as avc streams should be stored in mkv
- vfw mkv, which stores avc streams as avc streams should not be stored in mkv (basically in the same way as avc streams are stored in avi)

virtualdubmod outputs vfw mode mkv files which should be avoided

x264.exe outputs native mkv files, so this should be used (there are lots of guis for it, eg megui, staxrip...)