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Avidemux offers a free solution for video editing and encoding, less confusing than other similar softwares for a newbie.
Avidemux is a free open source video editor that is available on multiple platforms.
It allows the cutting of video sequences, applying filters and encoding. Avidemux supports many formats, including AVI, MPEG-2, MP4, MKV or ASF using many codecs ( H263 , MPEG4 , XviD or x264 for video, Blade, FAAC , Vorbis , WAV, including AC3 for audio ), the creation of projects including several encoding tasks , or adding many filters ( deinterlacing , cropping , subtitles ... ) with management scripts.
Tasks can be automated thanks to projects in the queue and the ability to create scripts.
Everything is easily accessible: the choice of audio and video codecs, adding filters or preview the video and setting benchmarks for start and end .
* Hw Accel : Fixed nvEnc and added simple nvEnc-HEVC (windows/linux).
* Hw Accel : Added support for HEVC/VC1 with libVA (linux).
* Hw Accel : Experimental Dxva2 video decoder + Dxva2/D3D display engine (windows).
* Demux : Mpeg TS, fix non multiple of 16 file management.
* Audio/win32 : Fixed CPU consumption when playing audio.
* Editor : Fixed copy /paste /delete /undo.
* Editor : A *lot* of seeking bugs fixed.
* Editor : A *lot* of marker management bugs fixed.
* Audio : Added FDK-AAC as encoder.
* x26* : Added a "None" preset.
* x265 : Fixed 2 pass encoding on windows.
* i18n : Qt4 vs Qt5 language fix.
* i18n : German translation updated.
* UI : Added reload default settings.
* UI : Allow minimizing to tray while encoding.
* OSX : Update to Sierra.