{"id":9257,"date":"2019-08-15T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:16:00","slug":"avidemux-2-7-4-released-bug-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/avidemux-2-7-4-released-bug-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Avidemux 2.7.4 Released with Tons of Bug-fixes (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>Avidemux video editor released version 2.7.4 today with tons of bug-fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p>Aivdemux 2.7.4 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detect and warn when cut points in H.264 video streams may result in playback issues despite being on keyframes<\/li>\n<li>Update to the 4.1.4 release<\/li>\n<li>Enable HW accelerated decoding of 8-bit HEVC for recent versions of Intel graphics driver on Windows<\/li>\n<li>Support audio tracks in fragmented MP4 files<\/li>\n<li>Support E-AC3 audio tracks in MP4 files<\/li>\n<li>Fix ASF demuxer still broken by chance with MSVC++ only, the fix relevant for all platforms<\/li>\n<li>Support more varieties of BMP images<\/li>\n<li>Optimize output of the Mp4 muxer for streaming on Windows too<\/li>\n<li>Add option to the Mp4 muxer to output fragmented MP4 files<\/li>\n<li>Support WMAPRO audio codec for decoding<\/li>\n<li>Support AAC with signal band replication (SBR) in external audio tracks<\/li>\n<li>Numerous other fixes. See <a href=\"http:\/\/avidemux.sourceforge.net\/news.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Avidemux 2.7.4 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>There are a few ways installing the latest the video editor in all curren Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/avidemux.sourceforge.net\/download.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Appimage<\/a>, single executable (enable it in file properties dialog) to launch the editor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/org.avidemux.Avidemux\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak<\/a>, community maintained package that runs in sandbox.<\/li>\n<li>Native Ubuntu (.deb) packages via <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/avidemux\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an unofficial PPA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04, here&#8217;s how to install Avidemux 2.7.4 via the unofficial PPA.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either from app launcher or via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut. When it opens, 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 due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/avidemux-new-ppa-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"avidemux ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/avidemux-new-ppa-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/avidemux-new-ppa-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/avidemux-new-ppa.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then run following 2 commands to refresh package cache and install the video editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install avidemux2.7-qt5 avidemux2.7-qt5-data avidemux2.7-plugins-qt5 avidemux2.7-jobs-qt5<\/pre>\n<p>NOTE: if you get software launching error similar to:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background:none;\">avidemux2.7_qt5: symbol lookup error: avidemux2.7_qt5: undefined symbol: _Z20extractH264FrameTypePhjPjPiP11ADM_SPSInfoS0_<\/pre>\n<p>try updating your system via command <code>sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade<\/code>.<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the native Ubuntu .deb package of Avidemux 2.7, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove avidemux2.7-*<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA via <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> utility under &#8216;Other Software&#8217; tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avidemux video editor released version 2.7.4 today with tons of bug-fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04. Aivdemux 2.7.4 release highlights: Detect and warn when cut points in H.264 video streams may result in playback issues despite being on keyframes Update to the 4.1.4 release Enable HW accelerated decoding of 8-bit [&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-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-avidemux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","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=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}