Avidemux

Avidemux is an open source application that provides an easy-to-use and cross-platform video editing solution. It can be used for basic video encoding tasks, filtering, cutting and more. It is officially supported on Linux, BSD, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Features at a glance

With Avidemux, users will be able to automate tasks using powerful scripting functionality, as well as the built-in projects and job queue. You can set multiple markers for video cutting tasks, zoom videos, change frame rate and encoder settings, preview files or set multiple audio tracks.

In addition, you can use the application to build VBR (Variable bitrate) time maps, append video files, connect to a running AvsProxy instance, as well as to save and load projects.

Supports a wide range of video streams

It supports well-known multimedia file types, including DVD-Video, AVI, MKV, MPEG2, MP4 and ASF, by using a wide range of multimedia codecs that are installed on your operating system.

While the application supports the MPEG-4 AVC/ASP, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, H.263 and a few more other video file formats, it always encounters problems with the MP4 H.264 format. Therefore, you will probably end up using the FFmpeg command-line software to work with MP4 files, which are pretty popular these days.

In order for the program to work properly and support the aforementioned multimedia formats, Linux users need to install some optional, yet important packages, such as LAME, FAAC, FAAD2, JACK, SDL, x264, Xvidcore and a few others.

Getting started with Avidemux

The best way to install Avidemux on your Linux operating system is through the official software channels of your Linux distribution, which should provide three packages, a command-line interface and two graphical front-ends, for GTK+ and Qt.

Both GUI front-ends look and act the same, but they have different desktop targets. While the GTK+ interface can be used on GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, Openbox or Fluxbox window managers, the Qt front-end is more suitable for the KDE and Razor-qt desktop environments.

What is new in this release:

• Audio : AAC in mpegTS fix
• Audio : external AAC import fix
• MKV : try to better guess original timestamp
• i18n : Russian and German translation update (TotalCaesar659 / euma
• UI : Filter UI fix

What is new in version 2.6.9:

• x265 support by KoolAidMan.
• Qt4 and Qt5 support .
• Compatibility with newer VAAPI.
• Updated ffmpeg libraries.
• Simple support for nvenc (linux).
• Better compatibility with Dash file, Flv.
• AvsProxy improvements (hinterwaeldler).
• Misc fixes (asjchult).
• Plenty of bugfixes and new bugs.
• Win32 and Win64 builds are now using winbuilds.org, Xp no longer supported.

What is new in version 2.6.8:

• Image/export: Proper initialization of Qz for jpeg export
• UI : Add an override menu to force language
• tinypy : Add support for os.environ
• x264 : Improved settings (tobias)
• Win32 : Fix crash when having an audio problem
• Win32 : Re-add mp4v2 to installer files
• Audio/FAAC : Fix channel mapping when source is mono
• Audio/AMR : Re-enabled AMR
• Audio/lavc : Fixed encoding for codec not supporting planar (MP2)
• Audio : Fixed importing MP2 audio detected as MP3
• Editor : Fix deleting chunks of the video leading to seek errors
• Editor : Initial copy/paste support
• Editor/audio: Fix issue when source has more than 4 tracks
• Editor : Better detection of double fps input files
• TS/Demux : Brute force eac3 probe
• TS/Demux : Better initialization, avoid dropping audio
• MP4/Demux : Fix management of PCM audio
• Mkv/Demux : Proper re-indexing for mpeg2 in mkv
• Mp4v2/Mux : Add fast start mode back
• OpenSolaris : Some fixes by pfelecan
• Subtitles : Update libass + very simple srt2ssa converter
• OsX : Enables more optional codecs...
• avsfilte : Performance Improvements (fahr)

What is new in version 2.6.7:

• [MKV] Fix seeking in h264
• [TS/H264] Split on NALU boundaries, it was off by one byte
• [TS/AAC] Add support for AAC/LC/SBR
• [MOV/MP4] Correct management of PCM/8Bits audio track
• [Images] Fixed import of bmp and jpg
• [Build] Support for newer cmake (ajschult)
• [Build] Better RPM generation (mit)
• [Auto/PSP] Fixed scripts (LJ)

What is new in version 2.6.6:

• Windows : Fixed MP4 muxer
• Windows : Patched x264 to use utf8, that should solve most of the bitrate too low errors
• All : Bumped x264 preset to v2 to make sure invalid Qp from older versions are not used any longer
• Mov : Fixed PCM/LPCM management
• Languages support for audio tracks

What is new in version 2.4.4:

• Improved h264 support in TS/TS2/MP4 files.
• Improved image handling (BMP, JPEG, etc.).
• The Qt4 GUI has been greatly improved.
• Translations have been updated.

Requirements:

• libxml2
• MAD
• LAME