AVIDEMUX(1)

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💅 AVIDEMUX(1) — the Avidemux manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is the man page for avidemux, straight out of the Avidemux documentation (manual section 1, iykyk). buckle up, she's thorough 💖

✨ NAME ✨

Avidemux — a free video editor. that's the whole vibe. free, video, editor. periodt 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

avidemux [options]
avidemux_gtk [options]
avidemux_cli [options] [files ...]

three flavors, same energy. avidemux, avidemux_gtk, and the lowkey CLI girlie avidemux_cli who also takes [files ...] 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for the simple stuff: cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. she supports so many file types — including AVI, MPG (VCD, SVCD), DVD compatible MPEG, MP4 and ASF — using a whole variety of codecs 🔥

and the automation?? obsessed. tasks can be automated using projects, the job queue, and powerful scripting capabilities. literally main character energy ✨

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

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single one, no skips, we don't do that here 💅

  • --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 🙈 (yes bestie, that's literally what the page says — i'm not fixing it, i'm just the messenger 💀)
  • --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, formatted as (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 🧚

okay this part is so cool. 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". ✨ iconic.

🍓 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). 🫶

ngl that's the whole page, no cap, every flag accounted for 🌈

okay bye bestie — this page is Avidemux 2.4, dated May 30, 2007, and it ate. slay 💅👑🎀

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