Avidemux 2.6.14 Released, How to install in Ubuntu 16.04

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Avidemux video editor has reached the 2.6.14 release a few hours ago with translation updates, platform fixes, and following changes.

Qt version now automatically check if a new version is available (can be disabled in Preference)
Decoding: Deal with corrupted stream in a nicer way (H264/TS)
Decoding: Enable lagarith
Decoding: Support for flac through libavcodec
VDPAU: Try harder to release resources at exit
Demuxer: Image loader improved and cleaned up, more jpeg formats are supported
Editor: Try to deal better with corrupted audio in copy mode
TS: Add support for new EAC3 identifier such as the ones used by numericable / DVB-T
Encoder: Fix most of the libavcodec based encoders

Avidemux can be installed in Ubuntu from:

either GetDeb repository for Qt 5 build, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.
or Thanh Tung Nguyen’a PPA for both Qt4 and Qt5 build, available for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04.

To install Avidemux from GetDeb repository:

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add GetDeb repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

2. Setup the key so Ubuntu will trust the packages from that repository:

wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

3. Update and install Avidemux 2.6.14 via command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install avidemux2.6-qt

You may also use Synaptic Package Manager instead to update and install avidemux video editor.

4. (Optional) To remove it, run command:

sudo apt remove avidemux2.6-qt && sudo apt autoremove

And the GetDeb repository can be removed via Software & Updates utility (Other Software tab).

To install Avidemux from Thanh Tung Nguyen’a PPA (not ready at the moment, check the link above):

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial

2. Update the package index via command:

sudo apt update

3. Finally install Avidemux either via following command or using Synaptic Package Manger:

sudo apt install avidemux2.6-qt4 avidemux2.6-qt5

To avoid conflict, please remove GetDeb repository as well as avidemux2.6-qt while installing the Qt5 version avidemux2.6-qt5 from the PPA.