Version history for avidemux

Changes for v2.5.3 - v2.5.4

For linux : Make you sure you grab the 2 small patches available in the forum. One deals with audio device lost when restarting avidemux.
The Win32 binaries are now available, including the SDK if you want to build your own filters or encoders, courtesy of Gruntster.
A more complete changelog, made by Gruntster also :
Added support for VP8 video decoding
Improved decoding of VC-1 video in the MPEG-TS container
Fixed decoding of UYVY video
Support for DIB video that requires flipping
Support for additional DV fourCCs (DVSD, CDVC, cdvc)
Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
Updated the FFmpeg libraries
Added support for compressed headers, MPEG-2 audio and VP8 video in MKV container
New AvsFilter for Linux (written by Fahr)
New OpenGL video renderer for the Qt interface (SDL has been deprecated)
New Plugin Manager for the Qt interface
Restored most of the internationalisation support that existed in 2.4
Compatibility improvements to auto wizards
Improvements to Unicode support for JavaScript files on MS Windows
GCC 4.5 support
Various minor fixes and enhancements

Changes for v2.5.1 - v2.5.2

Re-enabled Vorbis decoder (regression introduced 2.5.0)
Improved channel mapping of multichannel DTS
Updated the FFmpeg libraries
Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
Added support for H264 video, VP6A video and AAC audio in FLV container
Added support for SEDG and WMVA four CCs
Various fixes related to Xvid settings
Fixed Xvid stat files remaining locked after encoding (regression introduced 2.5.0)
Improved MKV demuxer
New Colour Curve Editor plugin for Qt interface
Fixed FluxSmooth filter plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
Fixed saving of filter parameters for Rotate and Equaliser plugins (regression introduced 2.5.0)
Added extra bitrate settings for LAME audio encoder
Enabled JACK audio device plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
Various GUI fixes for GTK+ and Qt interface
Fixed command-line interface support for various video filters
Changed "save-jpg" parameter of command-line interface to honour "begin" parameter
Fixed saving of crash file when Avidemux unexpectedly quits (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
Fixed GUI quirks when using Copy mode and AVI un/packing
Alsa reverts now to default instead of dmix
Further improvements to Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
Various minor fixes and enhancements
Things that are known to be not working well:
Multichannel vorbis
Partial filter

Changes for v2.4.2 - v2.4.3

Improved support for MP4 files including support for 64-bit files
Encoder and Decoder for Y800 (Compholio).
libavcodec is now the default MPEG-2 decoder (instead of mpeg2dec).
Fixed memory leak when indexing DVR-MS files.
Fixed calculation of width and height for High Profile H.264 video in TS files.
Fixed dropping of frames using x264 2-pass encoding (regression introduced in 2.4.2).
Restored missing code pages to the Subtitler filter (regression introduced in 2.4.2).
Fixed crashing on MS Windows when opening multiple instances of Avidemux (regression introduced in 2.4.2).
Do not add unneeded delay when using x264 with mkv or mp4.

Changes for v2.4 preview 2 - v2.4 preview 3.1

There was two small problems on the win32 and macOsX package. AAC support was missing on the win32 ones, and some compatibility issue with MacOsX ones.
They have been upgraded to 3.1, check the download page (the internal version is still the same!). No change for the source tarball.

Changes for v2.3 - v2.3+

Changes for v3.0 Preview 2 - v2.3