Software I like:
Avidemux
There is good wiki
documentation available.
Under Debian 6 (Squeeze) 3 versions of Avidemux 2.5.4 are
installed:
- avidemux2_cli (command line)
- avidemux2_gtk (GTK+ GUI)
- avidemux2_qt4 (QT GUI)
A symlink in /etc/alternatives/ determines which one is invoked
by the avidemux command.
See their
Audio/video sidebar
for an explanation of how to select a container ‘Format’ to suit
the audio and video stream types.
Cutting
Brief instructions for cutting MPEG videos that don't have audio:
- Set dropdown to
to avoid time-consuming re-encoding.
- Set dropdown to
- Use the various icons or the arrow keys or the thumbwheel to
move back and forth in the video.
- Use the and
icons to select the
beginning and end of a section to be cut. Make sure that the
end frame is an Intra frame (or keyframe),
that is,
Frame Type is I.
The double-arrow icons can be used to go to the previous
or next keyframe.
- Cut a selected section using
or
Ctrl-X.
- Save the file using .
See also Cutting in the wiki.
Re-encoding
To re-encode a video, a reasonable choice might be:
:
: (lame)
:
R. Funnell
Last modified: 2017-02-25 11:48:16