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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I don't really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.

Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.

Good for transcoding.

• I use avidemux_gtk

  • there is also avidemux2_cli

• wiki

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• 2021-02-17 - 2.7.6 (Avidemux_2.7.6VC++64bits) on Windows 10

• 2020-06-26 - 2.7.4 on Devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64

  • Can't get audio working because I don't have OSS or PulseAudio
• 2020-03-02 - 2.7.5 (Avidemux_2.7.5VC++64bits) on Windows 10

• 2019-10-31 - 2.7.4 on Debian 10.1.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1

  • Using its new 64bit universal AppImage.

• 2019-10-25 - 2.7.3 on Windows 10

  • And various earlier versions, for some time now.
• 2016-03-26 - 2.5.4 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• 2009-05-23 - 2.4.3 on (distribution not recorded)

• 2009-01-18 - 2.4.1 on (distribution not recorded)

2016-03-26 - 2.5.4 ∞

I used avidemux2_gtk

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xbox 360 transcoding ∞

(transcoding)

On the left, choose these from the dropdown boxes:

• video: MPEG-4 avc
• audio: AAC (Faac)

• format: MP4

Playing the video, the properties say:

• x264
• AAC

• MP4

2009-05-23 - 2.4.3 ∞

I kept getting errors trying to play sound while Firefox was running with YouTube movies up. To correct that, I did:

Edit > Preferences > Audio > Audio output: SDL

• Shit, it can't read/edit most movies which MPlayer can play just fine. Bah!

  • I might try kino, but it takes 25 minutes to import a video, and its crop function is fucking stupid. I can't even figure it out.
• Why in the hell can't it save over top of my currently-editing file? That sucks.. it should fake it.

• It can't remember the current working directory, it keeps defaulting to ~

# TODO: Check for parameters
# TODO: Check that the parameter is a movie - by extension or by other means ("magic"?)
MYPWD="$PWD"
FILE=`"readlink" -f "$1"`
WORKING="/mnt/autofs/hdd/sdg1/p/"
COPY="$WORKING"/copy
NEW="$WORKING"/new

# Test setup
# \cp --force "./test.wmv-backup" "./test.wmv"

\cp --force "$FILE" "$COPY"
\avidemux2_gtk "$COPY"
\mv --force "$NEW" "$FILE"

\gmplayer "$1"

# Cleanup
# \rm --f "$COPY"

2009-01-18 - 2.4.1 ∞

• Command line usage

  • Best to not use it, because it makes lots of assumptions on the normal dialogues.

• Video slideshow

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• When opening the videos I've worked with so far, it needs to take a bit of time to process them. There should be an option to make it not ask me about that, and just do it right away if I wish.

  • I might have found a preference for this. I'm not sure.
• When saving something I chopped up, it asked me for a "q factor" which makes no sense to me.
• Cannot use the bar to hop around while it's playing. You have to stop it to use it. Fail.
• How come the player is awesome in avidemux, but when playing it normally gMPlayer has to "rebuild" the picture from mottled blobs?

• Cannot double or fullscreen the player.

Alternatives ∞

• Vidcutter