Because a cruxppc user asked to me about a working and recent port for avidemux I did it.
But there are some issues with powerpc/altivec code thus i cannot use it but i guess it works fine on x86 arch.
After some tests I hope someone could adopt and update it in contrib/ repo.
available here:
http://clinker.cruxppc.org/~acrux/avidemux.tar.bz2
cheers,
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acrux <acrux_it(a)libero.it>