
Publisher’s Description
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 doesn´t 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. It´s 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 Please note that Avidemux does not support the platform-specific and outdated ´Video for Windows´ (VfW) interface and it never will!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 don´t worry: Avidemux will open all files, that were encoded with DivX, just fine. Avidemux simply uses it´s 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!
What´s New in Avidemux 2.4.4
Fixed crash when opening some MOV files (regression introduced in 2.4.3)
Improved support for H.264 in MPEG-TS and M2TS containers
Improved support for H.264 in MP4 container (including constant frame rate fix)
Fixed bug where muxers could drop the first few B-frames (most containers were affected)
Fixed FAAC support so bitrate is correctly honoured
The same settings are now used for the first and second pass of an x264 encode
Improved JPEG file support
Improved PNG decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than a custom wrapper around libpng)
Improved BMP/DIB decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than using own decoder)
Improved colourspace handling for raw video, bitmaps and DIBs
Fixed Previous Black Frame functionality
Qt interface has been significantly upgraded and now fully functional (compared with its GTK counterpart)
Saving of video is now prevented if the A marker is greater than the B marker
Improvements made to ECMAscript including a new GetFilePath() function for the DirectorySearch class and fixes to the exec() function
Add support for AAC audio to the command line interface
Qt interface is now the default interface for MS Windows
x264 and Xvid stat files with Unicode characters are now handled on MS Windows
The application log file is no longer buffered on MS Windows to ensure sequential logging
Added support for ppc64 to the CMake build scripts
Updated the following translations: Catalan, Czech, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish
Avidemux 2.5 Changelog
4871 - [ffmpeg] update FFmpeg to r18940 & libswscale r29319
4868 - [Build] fix fix patch name
4867 - [Build] fix patch name
4866 - [ffmpeg] keep original ffmpeg library names on Windows
4850 - [Renderer] Fix xv output
4849 - [audio] Decoded DTS Header to update #of channels
4848 - [ffmpeg] change libxxx to libADM5xxx to avoid clash with system libs
4767 - [I18n] Add tw translation (ziyawu@xxxx.com) and bulgarian (LFU project team)
4766 - [x264] always return flag after creating header
4763 - [Win32] update Win32 build scripts and installer to use own SpiderMonkey
4762 - [script] add option to use system version of SpiderMonkey
4761 - [script] revert part of r4760
4760 - [script] output new property names in scripts
4759 - [js] remove pointless resolving of path for include scripts
4758 - [x264] support core 67
4757 - [rgb] use SWS_ACCURATE_RND to temporarily fix broken swscale RGB conversion
Win32 Package Notes
Revision 4741 (20 Apr 2009)
Updated x264 to r1159.
Updated Avisynth Proxy GUI to version 2.08.
Added Netscape Portable Runtime version 4.7.4.
Updated Pango to version 1.24.1-1.
Updated Qt to version 4.5.1.
Updated SpiderMonkey to version 1.7.0.
Updated GLib to version 2.20.1-1.
Updated GTK+ to version 2.16.1-1.
Packaged using NSIS 2.43.
Updated Libxml2 to version 2.7.3.
Important Web-Links
Avidemux Homepage
Avidemux FAQ at Doom9´s Forum
Avidemux Support Forum
Avidemux Wiki (Documentation and Guides)
