BUG: avidemux_cli.exe does not do --save-uncompressed-audio and other commands

[StR]

Actually, there are several bugs:

1. avidemux_cli does not take --save-*audio  and --audio* commands:

a) Using version 2.6.7 (Win7-32), I can do:
for /r %%f in (*.AVI) do %avidemux% --load "%%f"--audio-codec PCM --save-uncompressed-audio "AUDIO\%%~nf.wav" --quit
with
set avidemux="C:\Program Files\Avidemux 2.6\avidemux.exe"
but not with:
set avidemux="C:\Program Files\Avidemux 2.6\avidemux_cli.exe"

(A similar situation is with --save-raw-audio as well.)

avidemux_cli.exe crashes with -save-uncompressed-audio or --save-raw-audio

b) Also, seemingly, it doesn't recognize a bunch of --audio* commands listed here:
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=using:command_line_usage

2. --nogui is ignored on Win7
Additionally, avidemux.exe from 2.6.7 (nor avidemux2.exe from 2.5.6) seems to do nothing about --nogui, even when used as the first argument: the gui interface windows opens anyway.

[mean]

with 2.6, use avidemux_cli.exe
The no-gui just prevents popups from appearing

[StR]

with 2.6, use avidemux_cli.exe
The no-gui just prevents popups from appearing

As I wrote in the original message above, avidemux_cli.exe does not work for many commands (options).
I am not sure what popups you are talking about. I did not see any difference between with and without --nogui option.

[mean]

These commands are from 2.5.x versions

[StR]

These commands are from 2.5.x versions

Which ones? --save-uncompressed-audio/--save-raw-audio ? or --nogui?

I just ran:
"C:\Program Files\Avidemux 2.6\avidemux_cli.exe" --help and it showed:

...
*** Automated : 28 entries*************
help-->0

Command line possible arguments :
    --nogui, Run in silent mode  ( no arg )
    --slave, run as slave, master is on port arg  (one arg )
    --run, load and run a script  (one arg )
    --save-jpg, save a jpeg  (one arg )
    --begin, set start frame  (one arg )
    --end, set end frame  (one arg )
    --save-raw-audio, save audio as-is   (one arg )
    --save-uncompressed-audio, save uncompressed audio  (one arg )
    --load, load video or workbench  (one arg )
    --load-workbench, load workbench file  (one arg )
    --append, append video  (one arg )
    --save, save avi  (one arg )
    --force-b-frame, Force detection of bframe in next loaded file  ( no arg )
    --force-alt-h264, Force use of alternate read mode for h264  ( no arg )
    --audio-delay, set audio time shift in ms (+ or -)  (one arg )
    --audio-codec, set audio codec (MP2/MP3/AC3/NONE (WAV PCM)/TWOLAME/COPY)  (o
ne arg )
    --video-codec, set video codec (Divx/Xvid/FFmpeg4/VCD/SVCD/DVD/XVCD/XSVCD/CO
PY)  (one arg )
    --video-conf, set video codec conf (cq=q|cbr=br|2pass=size)[,mbr=br][,matrix
=(0|1|2|3)]  (one arg )
    --reuse-2pass-log, reuse 2pass logfile if it exists  ( no arg )
    --autosplit, split every N MBytes  (one arg )
    --info, show information about loaded video and audio streams  ( no arg )
    --output-format, set output format (AVI|OGM|ES|PS|AVI_DUAL|AVI_UNP|...)  (on
e arg )
    --rebuild-index, rebuild index with correct frame type  ( no arg )
    --var, set var (--var myvar=3)  (one arg )
    --help, print this  ( no arg )
    --quit, exit avidemux  ( no arg )
    --probePat, Probe for PAT//PMT..  (one arg )
    --avisynth-port, set avsproxy port accordingly  (one arg )

So, both --nogui and -save-*-audio are there.

(Even though I see that some of the --audio* commands mentioned in 1(b) of the original message are not there. -- This is extremely confusing that Wiki does not differentiate which version it applies to: http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=using:command_line_usage )

[johan.ehnberg]

Same seems to be true for --begin and --end and more (--audio-codec pcm and --video-codec yv12 are also broken ?). At least these arguments are advertised by the binary of 2.6.8 provided in Ubuntu ppa:rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial but are not working.

I tried to install this to get around the 2.5.x ~4GB ODML video freeze bug but 2.6.x is functionally regressed to the extent it cannot be used for my needs in the first place.

So, either this is a regression bug, or as I have understood avidemux 2.6.x is quite a different animal, documentation is lagging years behind (and 2.6.x. may still also be regressed).

[mean]

The doc is lagging
The main idea is for you to use the tinypy scripts for these kinds of actions