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

2.4 Final is ready for Christmas. Small changelog compared to preview 3 :

* MKV and FLV improvements.

* Mostly fixed decoding corruptions.

* Improved OsX versions, including PPC.

A short changelog compared to 2.3 :

* Input and output support for MKV and FLV containers

* Rewritten MP4/MOV/3GP reader

* Support for Nellymoser codec

* New DV video output support

* New MPEG-TS support including H.264 Elementary Stream

* OCR support for MPEG-TS subtitles

* New video bitstream unpacker (improved compatibility)

* Capability to pack video bitstreams

* New 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 (Win32 only)

* New Jog Shuttle control (GTK+ user interface only)

* Support for Jog Shuttle hardware (Linux & GTK+ only)

* New iPod and PlayStation Portable profiles

* New Glyph Editor

* Improved Bitrate Histogram

* JACK support (Linux only)

* DirectX support (Win32 only)

* New Avisynth Proxy GUI (Win32 only)

* Improved crash recovery - session settings are saved and reloaded upon application start

* Numerous bugs fixed

A bit deal of this version has been done by Gruntster and surfer.

Merry Christmas!

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 2.4 final Size: Works on: Windows, Linux, Mac Product page: here