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Up-to-date, FOSS, Linux-ready alternative for avidemux/VirtualDub (wiki.ubuntuusers.de)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone,

as I don't need to do extensive video manipulation but simple cutting/compression of videos as well as extraction from every "nth" video frame to save as picture. I've been using avidemux and VirtualDub in the past for this purpose. However, both avidemux and VirtualDub are last updated in 2012/2023 and thus not up-to-date anymore. Thus, I am now looking for a linux-ready, FOSS, and up-to-date solution to do the same. Shotcut, Kdenlive and OpenShot are much too extensive in features for the simple things that I am looking for it to do. Does anyone here have good recommenations?

Thanks for your help! Temperche

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ? I never used it, but looks promising. HandBrake: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake is also a great GUI tool to convert videos, with some basic editing (cutting and such).

You could also always learn Ffmpeg from commandline and with scripts. Obviously this has a huge learning curve, but once you learn it, you are then free from any GUI or other tool in the future. At least for simple tasks this could be useful when automating. It's on my todo list...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

One great use I have found for ChatGPT and family is helping me divine command line one-liners for standard shell programs. Generating commands for tools like ffmpeg are also reasonably successful and saves a lot of time digging through man files

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use MKVtoolnix for reboxing files (naturally it outputs MKV). I would assume ffmpeg can do the slicing that you want but it's just a library with a CLI. So if you search for ffmpeg GUIs you can probably find one to your liking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Is there any reason you need to switch other than the age of the last releases? Avidemux had its last release in 2022 and its last commit a week ago. For a piece of software with a fairly stable and unchanging set of features, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Avidemux still works fine on Linux and is still packaged by all of the large Linux distros, so I don't see the problem. VirtualDub's definitely dead, though.