Avidemux v2.5.1 (SVN-r5369) Download

What the heck is Avidemux?

Imagine an application which does everything VirtualDub can do, but runs on various platforms, supports a lot of containers, comes with all Codecs you need built-in and doesnt use the nasty VfW interface. That applications is Avidemux! And now the "official" version: Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Its graphical user interface looks pretty similar to VirtualDub and most features known from VirtualDub are available too. Avidemux natively supports a great number of file types, such as AVI, MPEG, VOB, TS, MP4, ASF, OGM, MKV and FLV. At the same time Avidemux natively supports a wide range of Video/Audio formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC, DV, HuffYUV, MP3, AAC, AC-3 and Vorbis. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Video-DVD or (S)VCD compliant streams can be created with easy-to-use "Auto" wizards. Multi-threading is supported!


What encoders are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with several video encoders built-in: Xvid (MPEG-4 ASP), x264 (H.264 aka AVC), libavcodec (MPEG-4 ASP, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, FLV, HuffYUV, FFV1, MJPEG, H.263, DV) and mpeg2enc (MPEG-1, MPEG-2). Also it includes various audio encoders: LAME (MP3), FAAC (LC-AAC), Aften (AC3), Ogg Vorbis and TwoLAME (MP2). Please note that Avidemux does not support the platform-specific and outdated Video for Windows (VfW) interface and it never will! This means there is absolutely no way to use DivX (or any other VfW-based Codecs) with Avidemux! But dont worry: Avidemux will open all files, that were encoded with DivX, just fine. Avidemux simply uses its own (internal) MPEG-4 decoder instead of the proprietary DivX decoder. Furthermore the files encoded with Avidemux and Xvid will play 100% fine on a "DivX certified" player, as long as you use the appropriate encoder settings...


What video filters are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with a wide range of video filters built-in. Most of those filters were ported from MPlayer, VirtaulDub or Avisynth. There are filters for Cropping, Resizing (Bilinear, Bicubic and Lanczos) and Expanding. For processing of interlaced video, there are various Deinterlacing and IVTC filters (e.g. Yadif, TDeint, Kernel Deinterlacer, Smart Deinterlace, mcDeinterlace, DGBob and Decomb Telecide). Furthermore there are filters for Denoising (FluxSmooth, denoise3d/hqdn3d, Stabilize, Temporal Cleaner, etc.), Sharpening (MSharpen, asharp, etc.), Color Correction and many more. Last but not least there is a new plugin system for external video filters now. So you can add additional filters to Avidemux without re-compiling!


Whats New in Avidemux 2.5.1

• Re-enabled several video and audio encoders (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• More video encoders are now plugins
• DV video encoder now supports more profiles
• Fixed loading and saving issues with LAME, x264 and Xvid options (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Removed support for libamrnb and replaced with opencore-amrnb
• Removed support for libdca and replaced with libavcodecs DCA decoder
• AMR-WB audio decoding support using opencore-amrwb
• Fraps video decoding support
• Lowpass-5 mode added to libavcodec deinterlacer filter plugin
• Fixed formatting of parameters for various filters on 64-bit platforms
• Updated libass
• Fixed sizing of the bitrate control on various video encoder configure windows (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Improved filter dialog for GTK+ interface
• New navigation icons for GTK+ interface
• Fixed the behaviour of several GTK+ open/save dialogs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• asharp filters Block Adaptive mode can now be disabled using the Qt interface
• Re-enabled the colour chooser dialog using the Qt interface (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• GCC 4.4 support
• Fixed issues with CMake build scripts when using multiple make jobs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)

Avidemux 2.5 Detailed Changelog

• [win32] update installer to support latest dependencies
• [macosx] build script tweaks by surfer
• [x264] compilation fix for older API
• [x264] support API version 76
• [PO] SR translation by popac
• [macosx] keep original ffmpeg library names on Mac
• [backtrace] Better backtrace using glibc functions (backport from 2.6)
• [Video/Filters] Move convolution filter to the sharpness category, closes #10
• [Filter/Field] Cleanup/rename filters, ref #10
• [macosx] fix reference to icon file
• [win32] include new colour curve editor filter in Windows installer
• [win32] include new colour curve editor filter in Windows installer
• [ffmpeg] update FFmpeg to r19894 & libswscale r29686
• [MKV] Add another alias for AAC
• [plugin] Curve editor, by janec
• [mkv] Derive frame type while indexing (merge from 2.6)
• [mkv] Derive frame type while indexing (merge from 2.6)
• [win32] fix mpeg muxer to handle unicode file names (fixes #38)
• [win32] handle unicode names when checking for file existence
• [Po] Polish translation by Aleksander Lukasiewicz
• [xvid] destroy xvid context after each pass
• [FLV] inverted check in audioEncoder, made flv output crash

Win32 Package Notes

• Updated x264 to r1271.
• Updated Qt to version 4.5.3.
• Updated ATK to version 1.28.0-1.
• Updated Fontconfig to version 2.7.3-1.
• Updated GLib to version 2.22.1-1.
• Updated GTK+ to version 2.18.1-1.
• Updated libpng to version 1.2.39-1.
• Updated Libxml2 to version 2.7.4-1.
• Updated NSPR to version 4.8.
• Updated opencore-amr to version 0.1.2.
• Updated Xvid to version 1.2.2.
• Updated Cairo to version 1.8.8-1.
• Updated Freetype to version 2.3.9-1.
• Updated Pango to version 1.24.5-1.
• Updated Avisynth Proxy GUI to version 2.09d.
• Updated Vorbis to version 1.2.3.
• Updated Ogg to version 1.1.4.
• Updated SpiderMonkey to version 1.7.0.

Important Web-Links

• Avidemux Homepage
• Daily x264 builds for Avidemux
• Avidemux FAQ at Doom9s Forum
• Avidemux Support Forum
• Avidemux Wiki (Documentation and Guides)