Two questions about Avidemux

[gastrof]

First, how in the world do you pronounce the name of that program? Is the "demux" part said as "day-moo", or what? (I've only used the program for years, but have no idea how to properly say it aloud.)

Second, the version I've been using is 2.5.4.

I'm setting up a newer computer, and downloaded the current version, but found there were so many changes, I couldn't make heads or tails out of it, and ended up removing it and downloading 2.5.4 instead.

What happened to the side by side comparison of the original video with how it'll look after filters have been added? I can't function without that feature!

Also, something really strange happened when I tried to crop out the black bars on a letterboxed recording (an .mpg) and turn it into true widescreen (which included deinterlacing and resizing, naturally). Once the filters were all in place and an attempt was made to "save" (get it to start recoding) the new version of avidemux said it couldn't do it.

Once 2.5.4 was on the computer, I set the whole thing back up again, and the video was processed just fine.

Has anyone else had trouble like that with the newest version?

[hech54]

De Mucks
I never update a program that works perfectly. I'm still using 2.4.4.

[gastrof]

De Mucks

Thanks.

I never update a program that works perfectly. I'm still using 2.4.4.

Can't argue with that, but it still leaves the question "Why couldn't the new version do what the old one did fine?" Nothing was copy-guarded or anything.

I'm still wondering if I'm the only one who's finding the new version less than useful, and WHY it might have been unable to do what the old version could.

[hech54]

The makers of AviDemux also removed many filters with each new release a few years ago. At least they told us about it....

[jagabo]

"Why couldn't the new version do what the old one did fine?" Nothing was copy-guarded or anything.

I'm still wondering if I'm the only one who's finding the new version less than useful, and WHY it might have been unable to do what the old version could.

AviDemux has just gotten worse and worse over the years. I stopped using it years ago.

Demux is a contraction of de-multiplex.

[hech54]

I use AviDemux exclusively to fix out of sync audio, and to replace audio in a clip......music videos.