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Virtualdub downloads as a 1.81 MB zip file.

This downloads as an 84.9 MB zip file.

I sure hope this does something Virtualdub can't / anything better than Virtualdub, my current preferred lossless video / audio editing Swiss army knife.

Can anyone confirm whether that is the case?

BTW downloads that don't require approaching Lord Appstore cap in hand can be found here:

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases

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Are people who edit video all that concerned about 80 MB? At current prices, that's like $0.005 of disk space.

I'm not about the 80 MB... but I'm rather concerned by the proliferation of Electron-based applications. They use way too much system resources. Like Chrome does... but for a browser (which is kind-of a "heavy" application) I still understand.

It runs on my not-windows computer so that's a good start

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Statically linked FFMPEG executable is about 80 MB. As there is no need to ship entire FFMPEG when only lossless operations are to be used, I'm sure it can be reduced below 10 MB.

"Smart cutting" does some re-encoding work, so you couldn't throw out those parts of FFMPEG after all.

Looks like it has better meta-data support and you can mark multiple segments of a video, re-arrange and then do a stream copy to a new file. I've been using VirtualDub for decades (maybe the wrong way) but I think doing the same would have required steam-copying the segments to new files and then appending them together. Not a fan of the interface based on the screenshot but I think it's worth giving it a try.

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