Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. While Ubuntu repositories still have version 2.5.x, this tutorial will show you how to install the latest release Avidemux 2.6.8 in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
First see changes in v2.6.8:
- Image/export: Proper initialization of Qz for jpeg export
- UI : Add an override menu to force language
- tinypy : Add support for os.environ
- x264 : Improved settings (tobias)
- Win32 : Fix crash when having an audio problem
- Win32 : Re-add mp4v2 to installer files
- Audio/FAAC : Fix channel mapping when source is mono
- Audio/AMR : Re-enabled AMR
- Audio/lavc : Fixed encoding for codec not supporting planar (MP2)
- Audio : Fixed importing MP2 audio detected as MP3
- Editor : Fix deleting chunks of the video leading to seek errors
- Editor : Initial copy/paste support
- Editor/audio: Fix issue when source has more than 4 tracks
- Editor : Better detection of double fps input files
- TS/Demux : Brute force eac3 probe
- TS/Demux : Better initialization, avoid dropping audio
- MP4/Demux : Fix management of PCM audio
- Mkv/Demux : Proper re-indexing for mpeg2 in mkv
- Mp4v2/Mux : Add fast start mode back
- OpenSolaris : Some fixes by pfelecan
- Subtitles : Update libass + very simple srt2ssa converter
- OsX : Enables more optional codecs…
- avsfilte : Performance Improvements (fahr)
Install:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install avidemux2.6-gtk avidemux2.6-qt4
Once installed, start it from app menu or Unity dash. Enjoy!