Avidemux vs GNU hexedit
Avidemux
avidemux.sourceforge.netGNU hexedit
rigaux.orgSide by side
| Figure | Avidemux | GNU hexedit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Hex Editors | 8.3 (#5) | 7.6 (#13) |
| License | The program is available under the GNU GPL license. | The author states that hexedit is open source and may be redistributed under the GNU General Public License. |
| Purpose | Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. | GNU hexedit displays and edits files in hexadecimal and ASCII. |
| Support | The homepage welcomes patches, translations and bug reports. | The author asks users to report problems and welcomes remarks of any kind. |
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In their own words
Avidemux
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GNU hexedit
GNU hexedit is a free Linux terminal program for viewing and editing file contents as hexadecimal values or ASCII text. It can read a device piece at a time, search forward or backward for strings in either representation, and save edits. Selection commands allow marking, copying, pasting, saving a copied region to another file, and filling a selected area with a string. The --sector option displays whole sectors and makes scrolling advance sector by sector. Keyboard commands control the terminal interface; --color works only when supported by the operating system. Changes remain in memory until saved, so large fill operations may trigger a warning. Read-only files cannot be changed and are reported as non-writable. The author describes hexedit as open source under the GNU General Public License. The maker page links to source archive 1.6, while Git builds use ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make. It supports disk editing but has no binary comparison, templates, scripting, or plugins.