The Final Steps

We have prepared the video and audio parts of our movie, now it is time to send the prepared video file to our MPEG Encoder.

Before we do this, we need to make sure VirtualDub is configured to not encode the video or audio. There is no point to recompress the movie in another format because this will only slow down the MPEG encoder and lose quality.

Go to the Video menu, select the "Compression" option and select the first option in the list, "(Uncompressed RGB/YCbCr)".

Now we're finally ready to send everything to the Tsunami MPEG Encoder.

Go to the "File" menu and click on "Start frame server", you will see the following image:

The text in the text field is an unique identifier for your movie, it must not have any punctuation signs or spaces.

Click Start and VirtualDub will ask you to save the video file that will trick applications into believing they open a real movie. Type a name and add the ".avi" extension at the end of the file name.

If you didn't forget to install the frame server at the start of the tutorial, you will see the following image after you click on Save:

This means VirtualDub is ready to serve images and audio to any application we want, as long as those application support the frame server driver.

We're now ready to encode the movie in Video CD format.

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