Avidemux

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 queueing system
• Subtitle processing support, including Optical Character Recognition, and hard subtitle VobSub.
• Large set of built-in filters
• Some multithreading capabilities

Avidemux also features in our 'Linux Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category selector below allows you to filter the different types of software included in that separate article.

Last Updated Tuesday, August 11 2009 @ 03:30 PM EDT