Avidemux 2.8.1 – FREE Video Editor

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Description

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Specifications

Avidemux is a freeware, open-source video editor designed for multi-purpose video editing, converting, simple cutting, resizing, filtering and encoding tasks.

It supports many file types, including AVI, MP4, Matroska, MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265. It does not yet, or only partially supports modern open formats, like Opus, WebM, VP8, VP9 and AV1. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Avidemux enables you to edit most video files by your requirements to make them play on any selected device. Multi-threading is supported! The graphical user interface of Avidemux looks pretty similar to VirtualDub. The most features known from VirtualDub are available too and natively supports a great file types, such as AVI, MKV, MPEG, VOB, MP4, TS, ASF, OGM and FLV.

Avidemux cannot open raw MPEG streams. Instead, it can open indexed MPEG streams. The index is a text file containing navigation information. It is needed to allow frame accuracy.
As for MPEG streams, a NuppelVideo file has no internal index. Avidemux will rebuild it automatically upon loading (that could take some minutes).

Avidemux can also open a stream of uncompressed BMP files (RGB) or a set of JPEG files or a set of PNG files. The latest version of Avidemux can usually decode the WMV/ASF containers, there are occasionally some files that still have problems with opening or playing. If you have that problem, then you can try to place the WMV contents into an AVI container.

Multithreading

Multithreading has been implemented in the following areas of Avidemux (some partially through libavcodec):

Encoding
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
- MPEG-4 Part 2 SP/ASP (using libavcodec or Xvid)
  - Earlier versions of Xvid are not compatible with this feature.
- H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (using x264)
- H.265/HEVC (using x265)
Decoding
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using libavcodec)
- MPEG-4 Part 2 SP/ASP (using libavcodec)

Changes in Avidemux 2.8.1:

New Features

New HiDPI compatible button set
Fast method to add partial filters via CTRL+F shortcut
Audio department improvements
- custom frame rate change (audio stretch with pitch control)
- configurable compressor (DRC)
- 3-band equalizer
- independent channel gain options
- independent channel delay options
- channel remap options
- new downmix options: stereo headphone and headphone virtual surround
- audio track configuration up to 32 tracks
- volume setting is saved upon exit
Light and dark theme options in View menu
Option to remember selected resize method in “Resize”, “Fit to size” and “Zoom” filters
New filter: 3D LUT
New filter: Decimate
New filter: Arbitrary Rotate
New video encoder: VideoToolbox HEVC (“ffVTEncHEVC”, macOS only)

Other Enhancements

HDR tonemapping performance and quality improvements
Extended file info
Rotating mouse wheel over buttons to seek by 60 seconds cycles through 1/2/4/60 seconds seek modes
Support for decoding 8-bit VP9 in hardware via DXVA2 on Windows and via VDPAU on Linux with graphics cards featuring a VP9 decoder
Buttons to seek to selection start (A) and end (B) in on-the-fly video filter preview
Logo image in “Add logo” video filter configuration dialog is now scalable, can be repositioned by dragging
By default, on-the-fly preview in video filter configuration dialogs is now rendered using OpenGL to improve performance in HiDPI conditions

Bugfixes

Crash on copy to clipboard if selection extends to the end of video, a regression introduced in v2.8.0
Crashes in “Resample FPS” video filter with motion interpolation enabled
Crash on finishing encoding with the vp9 encoder
Avidemux falling victim to a crash in VA-API driver triggered by probing on application startup on Linux with some recent hardware
Crash loading MPEG-TS or MPEG-PS file with MPEG-1 video track and HW decoder via VDPAU enabled
Wrong number of channels or wrong channel layout with some E-AC3 streams
Reduced contrast and desaturated colors in loaded BMP images
Selection starting at zero and ending at the last picture of video cannot be deleted
Disabling B-frames breaks VideoToolbox HW encoder (macOS only)

Miscellaneous

Bundled FFmpeg libraries have been updated to 4.4.2 release.

Homepage – https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Avidemux can be used on almost all known operating systems and computer platforms. It is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

Size: 39.7 MB