What's New in Avidemux

2.5.2

• Re-enabled Vorbis decoder (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Improved channel mapping of multichannel DTS & Vorbis audio
• Fixed decoding of 5.1 channel Vorbis audio in MKV files
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
• Added support for H264 video, VP6A video and AAC audio in FLV container
• Added support for SEDG and WMVA four CCs
• Various fixes related to Xvid settings
• Fixed Xvid stat files remaining locked after encoding (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Improved MKV demuxer
• New Colour Curve Editor plugin for Qt interface
• Fixed partial filter support (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed FluxSmooth filter plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed saving of filter parameters for Rotate and Equaliser plugins (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Added extra bitrate settings for LAME audio encoder
• Enabled JACK audio device plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Various GUI fixes for GTK+ and Qt interface
• Fixed command-line interface support for various video filters
• Changed "save-jpg" parameter of command-line interface to honour "begin" parameter
• Fixed saving of crash file when Avidemux unexpectedly quits (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Fixed GUI quirks when using Copy mode and AVI un/packing
• Further improvements to Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

2.5.1

• Re-enabled several video and audio encoders (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• More video encoders are now plugins
• DV video encoder now supports more profiles
• Fixed loading and saving issues with LAME, x264 and Xvid options (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Removed support for libamrnb and replaced with opencore-amrnb
• Removed support for libdca and replaced with libavcodec's DCA decoder
• AMR-WB audio decoding support using opencore-amrwb
• Fraps video decoding support
• Lowpass-5 mode added to libavcodec deinterlacer filter plugin
• Fixed formatting of parameters for various filters on 64-bit platforms
• Updated libass
• Fixed sizing of the bitrate control on various video encoder configure windows (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Improved filter dialog for GTK+ interface
• New navigation icons for GTK+ interface
• Fixed the behaviour of several GTK+ open/save dialogs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• asharp filter's Block Adaptive mode can now be disabled using the Qt interface
• Re-enabled the colour chooser dialog using the Qt interface (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• GCC 4.4 support
• Fixed issues with CMake build scripts when using multiple make jobs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)

2.5.0

• Audio Codecs, Audio Devices and Video Filters are now plugins
• x264 and Xvid encoders are now also plugins with an updated Qt interface
• Auto wizards are now scripted and easier to extend
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

2.4.4

• Fixed crash when opening some MOV files (regression introduced in 2.4.3)
• Improved support for H.264 in MPEG-TS and M2TS containers
• Improved support for H.264 in MP4 container (including constant frame rate fix)
• Fixed bug where muxers could drop the first few B-frames (most containers were affected)
• Fixed FAAC support so bitrate is correctly honoured
• The same settings are now used for the first and second pass of an x264 encode
• Improved JPEG file support
• Improved PNG decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than a custom wrapper around libpng)
• Improved BMP/DIB decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than using own decoder)
• Improved colourspace handling for raw video, bitmaps and DIBs
• Fixed Previous Black Frame functionality
• Qt interface has been significantly upgraded and now fully functional (compared with its GTK counterpart)
• Saving of video is now prevented if the A marker is greater than the B marker
• Improvements made to ECMAscript including a new GetFilePath() function for the DirectorySearch class and fixes to the exec() function
• Added support for AAC audio to the command line interface
• Qt interface is now the default interface for MS Windows
• x264 and Xvid stat files with Unicode characters are now handled on MS Windows
• The application log file is no longer buffered on MS Windows to ensure sequential logging
• Added support for ppc64 to the CMake build scripts
• Updated the following translations: Catalan, Czech, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

2.4.3

• Improved support for MP4 files including support for 64-bit files
• Support for Y800 codec
• libavcodec is now the default MPEG-2 decoder (instead of mpeg2dec)
• Fixed memory leak when indexing DVR-MS files
• Fixed calculation of width and height for High Profile H.264 video in TS files
• Fixed dropping of frames using x264 2-pass encoding (regression introduced in 2.4.2)
• Restored missing code pages to the Subtitler filter (regression introduced in 2.4.2)
• Fixed crashing on MS Windows when opening multiple instances of Avidemux (regression introduced in 2.4.2)
• Remove unneeded delay when using x264 with mkv or mp4

2.4.2

• Improved input and output of audio streams in MKV files
• Support for MJPEG-A in MOV/MP4 files
• Fixed saving header information of AVI files with PCM/LPCM audio
• Fixed opening FLV files that don't contain audio
• Fixed corruption when decoding MP4 files
• Fixed crashing when using MPEG-4 ASP (lavc) and two pass average bitrate mode
• Flush the x264 encoder upon completion so the last few frames aren't dropped
• Fixed incorrect colour conversion of 24/32 bit BMP and DIB files
• Re-enabled AMR-NB decoder (regression introduced in 2.4.0)
• Support for additional VP6 fourCCs
• Xvid custom matrices are now activated correctly
• Fixed caching issue with Qt4 interface which would corrupt translated strings
• Fixed zooming when using SDL (regression introduced in 2.4.1)
• Windows are now centred correctly on multi-monitor setups
• Use alternate button ordering for GTK+ interface when GNOME HIG isn't appropriate, e.g. MS Windows and KDE
• Various additions to the Qt4 interface including a new calculator tool, drag and drop support, improved joblist support and an about window
• SRT subtitle support for Arabic, Baltic, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish
• Fixed iPod profile where audio encoding options weren't always set correctly
• Fixed Film to PAL audio filter so frames are removed and added correctly
• Batch importing of image files is no longer restricted by the file handle limit set by the C runtime
• Video filter for outputting the frame number
• PulseAudio support (Linux only)
• GCC 4.3 support
• Updated the following translations: Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish
• Fixed drag and drop support on MS Windows
• Improved Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
• Prevent source files from being overwritten accidentally by the user on MS Windows
• MS Windows logging and settings are now stored under the Application Data folder instead of the User Profile folder
• Native file dialogs are now used for the Qt4 interface on Mac
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

2.4.1

• Support for x264's new Hadamard Exhaustive Search method of motion estimation
• Decoder for Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile (WVC1)
• Re-enabled H.263 decoder (regression introduced in 2.4.0)
• Avoid corruption when encoding from MP4/MOV/3GP files
• Fixed loss of audio when saving large OpenDML AVI files
• Fixed various colour conversion issues with RGB codecs including BMP, Huffyuv, JPEG and PNG
• Updated the following translations: Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
• MS Windows logging is now stored in an Avidemux folder under the user's profile. This allows Avidemux to operate under a non-administrator account.
• MS Windows CLI version now outputs to console
• Quartz version for Mac
• Better SDL support for Mac Quartz and Qt4 versions (SDL windows are now embedded and acceleration is enabled for Qt4)
• Various video decoding fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
• Fixed freezing when opening files on Mac

2.4.0

• Input and output support for MKV and FLV containers
• Rewrote MP4/MOV/3GP reader
• Support for Nellymoser codec
• DV video output support
• MPEG-TS support including H.264 Elementary Stream
• OCR support for MPEG-TS subtitles
• Video bitstream unpacker (improved compatibility)
• Capability to pack video bitstreams
• Yadif filter (ported from Avisynth)
• Video filters can be loaded as external plug-ins (sample plug-in included)
• Three interfaces now offered: command line, GTK+ and Qt4 (Qt4 is still incomplete)
• Several key dialogs have been revamped (GTK+ user interface only)
• Preview system refactored
• Priority control added for encoding and video playback (MS Windows only)
• Jog Shuttle control (GTK+ user interface only)
• Support for Jog Shuttle hardware (Linux & GTK+ only)
• iPod and PlayStation Portable profiles
• Glyph Editor
• Improved Bitrate Histogram
• JACK support (Linux only)
• DirectX support (MS Windows only)
• Avisynth Proxy GUI (MS Windows only)
• Improved crash recovery - session settings are saved and reloaded upon application start
• Various minor bug fixes