NAME

Avidemux — a free video editor

SYNOPSIS

avidemux [options]

avidemux_gtk [options]

avidemux_cli [options] [files ...]

DESCRIPTION

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, MPG (VCD, SVCD), DVD compatible MPEG, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Homepage: http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

OPTIONS

--nogui: run in silent mode
--listfilters: list all filters by name
--run script: load and run a script
--audio-normalize mode: activate normalization with mode
--audio-resample num: resample to num Hz
--filters filter: load a filter preset
--codec-conf config: load a codec configuration
--vcd-res: set to VCD resolution
--svcd-res: set to SVCD resolution
--dvd-res: set to DVD resolution
--halfd1-res: set to 1/2 DVD resolution
--save-jpg filename: save to a jpeg file
--begin frame: set start frame
--end frame: set end frame
--save-unpacked-vop filename: save as avi file, unpacking vop
--save-packed-vop filename: save as avi file, packing vop
--save-ogm filename: save as ogm file
--save-raw-audio filename: save audio as-is
--save-raw-video filename: save as raw video stream (mpeg/... )
--save-uncompressed-audio filename: save as uncompressed audio
--load filename: load video or workbench
--load-workbench filename: load workbench file
--append filename: append a video
--save filename: save as avi file
--save-workbench filename: save as workbench file
--force-b-frame: Force detection of bframe in next loaded file
--force-alt-h264: Force use of alternate read mode for h264
--force-unpack: Force detection of packed vop in next loaded file
--force-smart: Engage smart copy mode with CQ=3 at next save
--external-mp3 filename: load external mpeg audio as audio track
--external-ac3 filename: load external ac3 audio as audio track
--external-wav filename: load external wav audio as audio track
--no-audio: load external wav audio as audio track
--audio-delay +msec|-msec: set audio time shift in ms (+ or -)
--audio-map: build audio map (MP3 VBR)
--audio-bitrate bitrate: set audio encoding bitrate
--fps fps: set frames per second
--audio-codec codec: set audio codec (MP2/MP3/AC3/NONE (WAV PCM)/TWOLAME/COPY)
--video-codec codec: set video codec (Divx/Xvid/FFmpeg4/VCD/SVCD/DVD/XVCD/XSVCD/COPY)
--video-conf config: set video codec conf (cq=q|cbr=br|2pass=size)[,mbr=br][,matrix=(0|1|2|3)]
--reuse-2pass-log: reuse 2pass logfile if it exists
--set-pp value strength: set post processing default value, value (1=hdeblok|2=vdeblock|4=dering) and strength (0-5)
--vobsub vobfile vosubfile ifofile: Create vobsub file (vobfile vosubfile ifofile)
--autosplit num: split every num MBytes
--info: show information about loaded video and audio streams
--autoindex: try to generate required index files
--output-format format: set output format (AVI|OGM|ES|PS|AVI_DUAL|AVI_UNP|...), often named as container format
--rebuild-index: rebuild index with correct frame type
--var name=value: set a variable i.e. '--var myvar=3'
--help: print a quick help
--quit: exit the program quickly
--probePat probe: Probe for PAT//PMT..

CUSTOM SCRIPTS

Custom encoding settings can be created with the scripting engine. Do the following steps:
1. Start avidemux and open any video file.
2. Configure you own encoding settings.
3. Save the settings as project (File -> Save project as...) with suffix ".js".
4. Quit avidemux.
5. Open the project file in a simple editor and delete useless lines.: * You need the first line "//AD" and the line "app = new Avidemux()"
* and the encoding settings beginning with "app.video.codec(...)".
6. Save this script file with suffix ".js" in the user directory "~/.avidemux/custom".
7. This custom script is now available in avidemux under the menu item "Custom".

NOTES

For more information see Avidemux Wiki at http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/ and Forum at http://www.avidemux.org/admForum/.

Avidemux sources and executables are available from the project web site at http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/.

AUTHOR

Avidemux was written by Mean <fixounet@free.fr>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

This manual page was original written by Joo Martin <debian@joomart.de>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

May 30, 2007

Avidemux 2.4