How to install LosslessCut in Ubuntu 16.04

To install LosslessCut in Ubuntu 16.04

LosslessCut is a simple, cross platform tool used for trimming and cutting video and audio files. It is built based on Chromium and uses the HTML5 video player. It supports the following formats such as MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, OGG, WAV, MP3, AAC, H264, Theora, VP8, VP9, etc. It is so easy to install LosslessCut and this tutorial explains the installation process involved in LosslessCut on Ubuntu 16.04

Installing LosslessCut

First, you need to download the installation package for LosslessCut. You can download it from the following link https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases. Once it is downloaded, go to the directory.

root@linuxhelp11:/home/user# cd Downloads/
root@linuxhelp11:/home/user/Downloads# ll
total 82032
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user     4096 Oct  2 18:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 user user     4096 Oct  2 13:46 ../
-rwxrw-rw-  1 user user 83990444 Oct  2 13:45 LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip*

And, extract the downloaded package.

root@linuxhelp11:/home/user/Downloads# unzip LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip
Archive:  LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip
   creating: LosslessCut-linux-x64/
  inflating: LosslessCut-linux-x64/blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak  
  inflating: LosslessCut-linux-x64/content_resources_200_percent.pak  
...
...
...
  inflating: LosslessCut-linux-x64/ui_resources_200_percent.pak  
 extracting: LosslessCut-linux-x64/version  
  inflating: LosslessCut-linux-x64/views_resources_200_percent.pak  

After that, you should change its directory to LosslessCut-linux-x64 and list then files as follows.

root@linuxhelp11:/home/user/Downloads# cd LosslessCut-linux-x64
root@linuxhelp11:/home/user/Downloads/LosslessCut-linux-x64# ll
total 122788
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 Sep 14 19:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 user user     4096 Oct  2 18:09 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    24844 Sep 14 19:51 blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       15 Sep 14 19:51 content_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10141945 Sep 14 19:51 content_shell.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10130464 Sep 14 19:51 icudtl.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2960824 Sep 14 19:51 libffmpeg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20341616 Sep 14 19:51 libnode.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1060 Sep 14 19:51 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1708004 Sep 14 19:51 LICENSES.chromium.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Sep 14 19:51 locales/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 78816464 Sep 14 19:51 LosslessCut*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   342741 Sep 14 19:51 natives_blob.bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 Sep 14 19:52 resources/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   993500 Sep 14 19:51 snapshot_blob.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   163267 Sep 14 19:51 ui_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        6 Sep 14 19:51 version
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    60144 Sep 14 19:51 views_resources_200_percent.pak

Now, you can open the LosslessCut application, use the following command for the same purpose.

root@linuxhelp11:/home/user/Downloads/LosslessCut-linux-x64# ./LosslessCut

The LosslessCut application gets launched and appears on your screen.

You can choose the output path in the application.

Also, it is very easy for you to capture frame format, since there is an option available on the application.

You can also easily capture a frame from the video with a single click.

With this, the isntallation of LosslessCut on Ubuntu 16.04 gets completed.