{"id":10437,"date":"2020-07-07T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2020-07-08T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:32:25","slug":"avidemux-2-7-6-released-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/avidemux-2-7-6-released-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Avidemux 2.7.6 Released with New Encoder\/Decoder [How to Install]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/avidemux-icon245.png\" alt=\"Avidemux video editor\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Avidemux video editor 2.7.6 was released a day ago with new video encoder \/ decoder, and many improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Avidemux 2.7.6 release highlights according to the changelog file:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detect and warn when cut points in HEVC video streams may result in grave playback issues despite being on keyframes<\/li>\n<li>Add libaom-based AV1 decoder<\/li>\n<li>Add libvpx-based VP9 encoder<\/li>\n<li>Update to FFmpeg 4.2.3<\/li>\n<li>Add hardware accelerated deinterlacer and resizer based on VA-API<\/li>\n<li>Increase maximum supported resolution to 4096&#215;4096<\/li>\n<li>Add support for Vorbis audio, LPCM audio to the Mp4 muxer<\/li>\n<li>Add HE-AAC and HE-AACv2 profiles to the FDK AAC encoder plugin<\/li>\n<li>Numerous other improvements and fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/avidemux276.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10438\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Avidemux 2.7.6 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><b>Appimage:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The official non-install single executable <code>.appimage<\/code> package is available for downloading:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/avidemux\/files\/avidemux\/' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Avidemux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After downloaded the appimage, go to file <i>Properties -> Permissions<\/i> and make it executable, finally right-click and run the file to launch Avidemux video editor.<\/p>\n<p><b>Flatpak:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The software is also as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/org.avidemux.Avidemux\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">containerized Flatpak package<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can run following commands one by one to setup flatpak, add flathub repository, and install Avidemux flatpak package:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install flatpak\r\n\r\nflatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo\r\n\r\nflatpak install flathub org.avidemux.Avidemux<\/pre>\n<p><b>Ubuntu PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded the .deb packages into the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/avidemux\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a>, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>1.) Open terminal and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/avidemux<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/avidemux-ppa-focal-600x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"102\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/avidemux-ppa-focal-600x102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/avidemux-ppa-focal-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/avidemux-ppa-focal.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2.) Then refresh system package cache and install the editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install libavidemux2.7-6 libavidemux2.7-qt5-6 avidemux2.7-qt5 avidemux2.7-plugins-qt5 avidemux2.7-jobs-qt5<\/pre>\n<p><i>NOTE: Due to build failure, I changed names of some shared libraries. If you have problem launching the editor, try <code>sudo apt upgrade<\/code> to update your system packages.<\/i><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To uninstall the PPA, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/avidemux<\/pre>\n<p>To uninstall the video editing software, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove libavidemux2.7-6 avidemux2.7-qt5 avidemux2.7-plugins-qt5 avidemux2.7-jobs-qt5<\/pre>\n<p>And to uninstall the Flatpak package, use command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak uninstall org.avidemux.Avidemux<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avidemux video editor 2.7.6 was released a day ago with new video encoder \/ decoder, and many improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04. Avidemux 2.7.6 release highlights according to the changelog file: Detect and warn when cut points in HEVC video streams may result in grave playback issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1677],"class_list":["post-10437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-avidemux"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}