The weekend that just passed brought us a new maintenance update to the free, open-source and cross-platform Avidemux video editor, versioned 2.6.15, which comes two months after the previous point release.
Avidemux 2.6.15 is here to improve hardware decoding and add encoding and usability fixes. It adds Fraunhofer FDK AAC as a supported audio encoder, introduces a “None” preset to the x26* series of video encoders, and fixes the two-pass x265 encoding on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Hardware decoding on Linux has been enhanced with the addition of support for HEVC/VC1 with the libVA library, and for Windows platforms there’s now an experimental DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoder, along with a DXVA2/D3D display engine.
It also looks like Avidemux 2.6.15 improves hardware decoding for both Linux and Windows platforms with the integration of a simple NVENC-HEVC, while attempting to fix various issues with Nvidia’s NVENC video encoder. Only for W… (read more)
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