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 Please note that Avidemux does not support the platform-specific and outdated ´Video for Windows´ (VfW) interface and it never will!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 2.5.0
- Audio Codecs, Audio Devices and Video Filters are now plugins
- x264 and Xvid encoders are now also plugins with an updated Qt interface
- Auto wizards are now scripted and easier to extend
- Updated the FFmpeg libraries
- Various minor fixes and enhancements
Avidemux 2.5 Detailed Changelog
- 4968 - [ffmpeg] update FFmpeg to r19285 & libswscale r29406
- 4962 - [automation] Also use the couple int %d for sscanf, cast later
- 4961 - [QT4] Maybe fix build on some linux variant
- 4945 - [po] traditional chinese update by Dong-Jun Wu
- 4943 - [ffmpeg] ffmpeg tarballs
- 4876 - [PO] Take also strings from plugin
- 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 4968 (27 Jun 2009)
- Updated x264 to r1173.
- Updated ATK to version 1.26.0-1.
- Updated GLib to version 2.20.3-1.
- Updated GTK+ to version 2.16.2-1.
- Updated libpng to version 1.2.37-1.
- Updated Ogg to version 1.1.4.
- Updated Pango to version 1.24.2-1.
- Updated Qt to version 4.5.2.
- Updated Vorbis to version 1.2.2.
- Updated Avisynth Proxy GUI to version 2.08.
- Added Netscape Portable Runtime version 4.7.4.
- Updated SpiderMonkey to version 1.7.0.
- Packaged using NSIS 2.43.
- Updated Libxml2 to version 2.7.3.
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