Capture video with VirtualDub on Linux Mint?
 

I currently use Virtualdub for capture, then avisynth for edits and ffmpeg for encoding. At the moment I’m on windows 11 but would like to ditch windows and use Linux mint instead, I know ffmpeg works on Linux, how would I use virtualdub and avisynth on Linux? Or if that’s not possible is there any sort of workaround?

Thanks!

You could try something like WINE but I doubt that would work. The next step is to try using a Virtual Machine within Linux. More importantly though what capture hardware are you using?

Two answers:

1. No.

2. But I've not tried lately. And perhaps I should. I just finished a fresh install of Mint on a non-video computer. But not much free time currently, so not anytime soon. It will be non-easy, very hacky, and probably still "no". But it might be a fun waste of a day, where I can listen to something (podcast, ball game, whatever) that I already want/need to do (so technically not a waste at all).

I daily use Windows 11, 7, XP, and Mint. Also macOS Ventura, but not daily lately.

(I had also used Xubuntu, but it's just fallen behind Mint now. It's the same OS now that it was a decade ago. And no, it's never worked with VirtualDub either.)

An OS is just a tool. Use them all. It's like a toolbox with screwdrivers, wrenches, a hammer, etc. It's not all supposed to be the same.

WINE, although whether WINE would provide access to the capture device could be pretty iffy. However...

FFmpeg can grab from an assortment of capture devices/protocols, so that can likely be done natively. I'm sure there are dedicated GUI tools for doing captures, but *shrug*.

AviSynth+ is cross-platform, so you don't even need WINE for that¹, especially if it's largely just stuff in the core itself. The caveat, at least for Debian-based distros, is that there is no package in the repos (the most prominent group of distros that do provide a package for AviSynth+ is Arch, btw). The deb-multimedia 3rd party repo has builds of AviSynth+, ffms2, and the ffmpeg in there might have had the AviSynth demuxer enabled, but I'm not sure.

That said, AviSynth+ is very easy to compile yourself, and so is avs2yuv - at which point you can at least pipe into FFmpeg. It's if you want it enabled directly in FFmpeg and mpv (not to mention having the FFmpeg-based source plugins so you aren't limited to importing stills/image sequences with ImageSource) that things get more involved, to a greater or lesser extent based on personal preference.



¹any plugins you use that haven't been ported yet notwithstanding