14 DAY TRIAL // The last day of 2016 brought us a new maintenance update of the open-source and multiplatform Avidemux 2.6 video editor and converter, versioned 2.6.16, which appears to be mostly a bugfix release.
Arriving five weeks after the release of AviDemux 2.6.15, which improved hardware decoding and encoding, but also added various usability fixes, Avidemux 2.6.16 is now the latest stable build of the video editor, which can now be built using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015.
Among the improvements and bug fixes added, we can mention that Avidemux 2.6.16 supports version 3.0.5 of the FFMpeg multimedia framework, subtitling works again on macOS thanks to the initialization of FontConfig, compliance with most devices was enforced for the x265 encoder, and a VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) resizer was added.
Contrast filter revamped, Qt UI redone
It also looks like the Qt graphical user interface was redone a little to no longer use too much CPU during playback when there's no audio track present, as well as to address a crash that occurred when x265 encoding process starts very slowly. Additionally, the keyframe detection was fixed and the NVENC encoder re-enabled.
Lastly, the contrast filter was revamped, the Russian and French language translations have been updated, and the build scripts improved to make use of libass, liba52, and libmad system libraries. The full changelog is attached below for more details, and you can download Avidemux 2.6.16 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website.
If you're downloading Avidemux through our web portal, we recommend reading the in-depth review to learn more about this powerful and free video editing application as it might just come in handy when you need to urgently cut, filter, or encode various video files from one format to another while adding subtitles or watermarks.