AVI-Mux GUI
AVI-Mux GUI
Current version: 1.17.8.3

NOTE: AVI-Mux GUI is discontinued. I do not plan to release any new version.
Alexander Noé
2010-08-26

FAQ


on v.1.17.8

Shortest possible description

AVI-Mux GUI is an application that allows to combine several video, audio or subtitle files into one file, with out without size restriction, allowing to configure properties of the output file to a deeper level than usual for such applications.

Sections

  1. Definitions
  2. Download
  3. Upload
  4. Features
  5. Online manual
  6. Quickstart
  7. Version-History


Windows 9x/ME

AVI-Mux GUI is using UTF-8 internally and Windows 9x/ME is no longer supported! Please use Windows 2000/XP. Although I didn't try, AVI-Mux GUI is supposed to work on Windows 2003 as well.

Windows Vista

AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.8 only works with the compatibility mode being enabled. The reason is not Windows Vista, but rather that I didn't include the major version number 6 (5 is 2k/XP) in the OS version check. This results in an error. So in the end, it turned out not to be a problem of Vista, but one of AVI-Mux GUI...

Features

supported input file types:
  • AVI, MKV
  • WAV, MPA/MP3, AC3, DTS, AAC, OGG/Vorbis
  • SRT, SSA
All file format readers have been rewritten from scratch and do not depend on bugs of 3rd party parsers
supported output formats:
  • AVI, MKV
  • raw (MPx, AC3, DTS...)
  • ATDS-AAC, OGG/Vorbis
the AVI, MKV and OGG muxers does not depend on any third party bugs either (ADTS is too simple to speak about a "muxer")
supports Open-DML AVI filesNo size limitation for AVI files (note: this breaks many hardware MPEG4 players)
supports creating rec listForces Microsoft's AVI Splitter to read AVI files sequentially, without seeking on the disc (note: this breaks many hardware MPEG4 players)
easy splittingSplit large files by size, by time or by chapter boundary. See here for more information.
handles MPx/AAC-in-AVIYou can use MPx, AAC and HE-AAC audio in your AVI files. Those files are 100% compliant to the AVI file specification
extracting most stream typesAll stream types that can be extracted in "raw mode", like MP3, AC3, DTS, as well as AAC and OGG/Vorbis streams can be extracted from source AVI/MKV files. SRT and SSA subtitles can be extracted from AVI files.
own cacheAn own cache increases performance over using the Windows file cache
repair filesSome typical bugs in AVI files causing by some known applications can be fixed without remuxing the file
Mode 2 - Form 2 readingFiles which are stored on CDs using the Mode 2 - Form 2 - format, or files which someone copied from such a CD using Windows Explorer, can be accessed directly
Vorbis-in-AVI readingAVI files containing Vorbis audio in a way compatible to what ffmpeg does can be used as data source. Note that writing such files is not yet possible in AVI-Mux GUI.
join AVI/MKV files with SSA subtitlesThis works even when the SSA style definitions of the source files collide: AVI-Mux GUI will recreate them.
real file type identificationAVI-Mux GUI doesn't care about the file name when identifying a file type, so it cannot be fooled by people who rename MKV, or, even worse, OGM files, to .AVI just to get more hits on eMule

note:

Quickstart

  1. Add all source files you need
  2. select video source file (or files, if you want to concatenate several AVI files to one) and click "generate data source"
  3. select all audio streams you want to include
  4. start

Download

v1.17.8.3 - binary2010/02/17 759 kBContains fixes for a couple of problems: reading certain DTS files, reading certain AAC files, settings dialog was cropped when the system font size was larger than normal, should not require compatibility mode setting on Vista and Windows 7 anymore. It's partially migrated from C-string functions to STL. This is NOT PROPERLY TESTED, I just want to release it, otherwise I'd never get it out. Maybe you want to test...
v1.17.8.3 - source code2010/02/17 682 kBNote that this is only tested on Visual Studio 2005. It does not work on Visual Studio 6 anymore, and I didn't try Visual Studio 2003
v1.17.8 - binary2009/11/29 663 kBThere is a Blog entry about this release. If you are upgrading from 1.17.5 or ealier, you must delete the gui.amg.xml file!
Update Nov 3rd, 2008: Added spanish language file (thanks to Leandro H. Fernández)
Update Nov 29th, 2009: Add turkish language file
v1.17.8 - source code2008/09/06 607 kBNote that this is only tested on Visual Studio 2005. It does not work on Visual Studio 6 anymore, and I didn't try Visual Studio 2003
v1.17.7 - binary2008/08/03 559 kBThis does not introduce new features compared to 1.17.6. It is a pure bugfix release. If you are upgrading from 1.17.5 or ealier, you must delete the gui.amg.xml file! The file was replaced by one containing a polish, italian, spanish, hungarian and chinese language file as well on August 3rd, 2008.
v1.17.7 - source code2006/08/08 597 kBNote that this is only tested on Visual Studio 2003. It does not work on Visual Studio 6 anymore and should also work on Visual Studio 2005
manual2008/09/12 471 kBComplete manual for AVI-Mux GUI, based on v1.17.8
DTS-in-AVI filter--filter required for replay of DTS streams additionally to a DTS decode filter (such as an appropriate version of WinDVD!)


Old downloads:
v1.17.6 - binary2006/05/28 542 kBIf you are upgrading from 1.17.5 or ealier, you must delete the gui.amg.xml file!
v1.17.6 - source code2006/05/28 595 kBNote that this is only tested on Visual Studio 2003. It does not work on Visual Studio 6 anymore and should also work on Visual Studio 2005
v1.17.5 - binary2006/04/07 528 kB-
v1.17.5 - source2006/04/07 575 kB-
v1.16.11 - binary2006/04/07 377 kB-
v1.16.11 - source2006/04/07 428 kB-


Upload

If you have a file that doesn't work in AVI-Mux GUI, I usually need that file in order to be able to reproduce and fix the problem. You can upload files via FTP on ftp://alexnoe.dyndns.org, user "upload", password "only". If the ftp is down, please contact me. I'll set it up when I can. This account has write, append and create folder permissions, but it does NOT include read or delete permission. If you can create small samples files causing the issue you want to bring to my attention, I prefer those instead of 2GB files, but if not, you can also upload large files.

Online manual

Further information

Bugs that have recently been found and brought to my attention

last updated on June 12, 2009

other known bugs/problems/limitations

known bugs of 3rd party stuff

Requests I have not implemented

Version History


Note: The source code for the crc check of Mode 2 Form 2 - source files was taken from the source code of the Mode2CDMaker.

AVI-Mux GUI is released under the terms of the GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

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