Avidemux – video editor

Avidemux is open-source software for editing and processing video. It runs on a number of different operating systems including Linux.

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many different types of video media, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Supported input formats: AVI, OpenDML, MPEG, ASF, NuppelVideo, H.263(+), MPEG-4, QuickTime, 3GP, MP4, OGM, and Images

Supported output formats: AVI (including H.264), MPEG, MPEG PS A+V, MPEG TS A+V, IGM, and MP4

Built-in decoders for video decoding predominately from the libavcodec library. Formats supported: Cinepak, DV, CRAM, FFV1, H.263, H.264, HuffYUV, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MS MPEG-4, Raw RGB, Raw YV12, SVQ3, VP3, VP6F, WMV2, and WMV3

Audio codecs for decoding: MP2, MP3, AC3, DCA, Vorbis, AMR Narrow Band, and AAC

Video codecs for encoding: DVD, FFHuffYUV, FFV1, H.263, H.263+, HuffYUV, MJPEG, MPEG-4, Snow, VCD, SVCD, XVCD, x264, and Xvid

Audio codecs for encoding: MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AC-3, WAV PCM, and LPCM

Features include:

  • WYSIWYG cutting and appending.
  • Bitrate calculator.
  • Muxing and demuxing of audio streams into and out of video files.
  • Specialist project system using the SpiderMonkey ECMAScript language for scripting in both GUI and console modes.
  • Project queuing system.
  • Subtitle processing support, including Optical Character Recognition, and hard subtitle VobSub.
  • Large set of built-in filters.
  • Some multithreading capabilities.

Website: fixounet.free.fr/avidemux
Support: Wiki
Developer: MEAN, JSC, Anish Mistry, Jakub Mistak, Kuisathaverat, and others.
License: GNU GPL v2

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