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VidCutter

Media Cutter + Joiner.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing: hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “OpenGL hardware accelerated playback (libmpv)” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of VidCutter is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

A modern, simple to use, constantly evolving and hella fast MEDIA CUTTER + JOINER w/ frame-accurate SmartCut technology, chapter support, media stream selection for audio + subtitle channels and blackdetect video filter support to automatically detect scene changes or skip commercials in digital TV recordings. Features include: OpenGL hardware accelerated playback (libmpv) Lossless, super fast media cutting and joining (FFmpeg) Detailed media metadata information (MediaInfo) Timeline thumbnails for more accurate seeking SmartCut frame-accurate cutting option (disabled by default) Attractive, simple to use Qt5 based interface Chapter support allowing scene chapter names to be included in final media metadata. NOTE: results will only work in media players that support chapters Flatpak release includes latest stable versions of FFmpeg, libmpv, MediaInfo and PyQt5 running on the KDE platform runtime

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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