Please report bugs in the Avidemux forums to get some feedback and determine the nature of the problem.

If it involves non systematic crashes, please also do the following:

gdb avidemux2
r

Do as you usual, when it crashes, go back to gdb and take the output of

bt

That plus the last lines printed by avidemux2 will help a lot.

• Before opening a thread about a problem, search the forum and read this Wiki, especially the FAQ. Chances are someone might have noticed that bug before you. It might have been fixed or a workaround may have been advised until the fix gets commited. It is also possible what you're seeing isn't an actual bug but results from bad manipulation of avidemux on your behalf. Also, make sure you're using the very latest version. Whatever version you're using, please mention it. The FAQ has an entry to help you determine the precise revision number if you don't know.
• Thoroughly describe the steps that will reproduce the bug.
• If the bug is specific to a certain input file or a certain input file format, cut a short sample that exhibits the problem and upload it to a free file hosting service. Also post a MediaInfo report about the input file.
• In all cases, post the Avidemux log file. It is located in %APPDATA%/avidemux/admlog.txt on Windows and in ~/.avidemux/admlog.txt on Linux (or in the console, if you ran it from there).

You can attach your log files and screenshots to your posts via the “Add file” button. One exception is the quick reply form, which doesn't offer such funcionnality (yet). If that doesn't work, you can use pastebin or pastebay to post large text content. Posting in the thread itself is tolerated but makes reading the thread painful, and could turn some helpers away.

If for some reason you don't want to (or can't) upload a huge sample on the web, you'll want to cut a piece of the file (ie. grab the first xx MBytes of the file).

On windows, you can use DGSplit for this purpose. Check the “Stop after N chunks” box, for 1 chunk, to speed up the process. The chunks are numbered starting from 0. Your cut sample should be named <output prefix>_0.

For .TS and for .M2TS files you can use Cut TS sample

Alternatively, if DGSplit doesn't work for you or if it doesn't work with your OS via an emulator, the split command does this perfectly (where XX is the number of MBytes you want to cut) : split -bXXM <input file> <output prefix> –verbose

This will actually split the entire input file into chunks of XX MBytes. You only want the first part, which should be named <output prefix>-aa. You can freely Ctrl+C the process after the command has told you the nnnnnnnn-ab sample is being created.

The split command is available natively under *nix. For Windows, you can grab the GnuWin32 CoreUtils. It contains the split command mentionned above, along with many other nifty tools from the *nix world. Once the “Complete package, except sources” is installed, don't forget to update your PATH environment variable so it points to “C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin;” (or whatever path you defined during installation).

Using tools like XtremSplit or other fancy file splitters is a no-go in this precise scenario since they usually require all the chunks to be present for the data to be reconstructed, which won't be the case.

The avidemux project doesn't provide storage for the samples you may send. Many free file hosting services exist for that purpose. Here are a couple you may use :

• MediaFire
• Uploaded.to
• MegaUpload
• RapidShare
• YouSendIt
• Feel free to use your own web/ftp server :)