Avidemux: Total confusion on the project?

[boospy33]

Hello all,

the project is quite old, but in my opinion, it's one of the best simple video editing programs that also works with GPU support. I just took a new look at the Avidemux project. But based on what I found, it's completely confusing me, and I'm not sure where I can still safely install Avidemux.

Avidemux is available via the following download/installation options (some downloads were hard to find):

• DEB packages directly from the Website "avidemux.org" (high level of trust): https://www.avidemux.org/nightly/ubuntu2604/
• Appimage directly from the Website "avidemux.org" (high level of trust): https://www.avidemux.org/nightly/appImage/
• DEB packages from this PPA (moderate level of trust): https://launchpad.net/~xtradeb And the website of this project: https://xtradeb.net/
• Various installation options available here "avidemux.net" (no trust): https://avidemux.net/download/ They're also releasing the PPA mentioned above, and an uncertified Flatpak https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.avidemux. An AppImage is also available for download, but you must have a TeraBox account.

What do you think about this situation?

[Snowhog]

I would go with the first if you wanted to stick with .deb packaging and have the "high level of trust", otherwise I would go with the second (Appimage), again for the "high level of trust". Just my .

[boospy33]

I just saw that this PPA, xtradeb, is also being promoted directly: https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html



I just tested the DEB packages from here: https://www.avidemux.org/nightly/ubuntu2604/ and the Appimage from here: https://www.avidemux.org/nightly/appImage/

Unfortunately, there's no hardware acceleration for VAAPI (AMD). So it's no fun. I'm going to try the ones from the PPA now.

Flatpak also works with full hardware support. That's strange.

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Edit: The packages from PPA https://launchpad.net/~xtradeb/+archive/ubuntu/apps also work with hardware acceleration. It would be nice if maybe some order could be brought to this... A minor disadvantage of OpenSource.