HOW TO INSTALL LOSSLESSCUT FREE VIDEO CUTTER APP IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST VIDEO TRIMMER FREE APPLICATION FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Losslesscut free video cutter app in Ubuntu 16.04. Losslesscut is a open source video trimmer free application used to cut video files in to small clips. It uses ffmpeg to cut the video files. This application is mainly useful for video editor professionals. Let’s take a examples : You shoot a movie. But apart from the story of the movie there is also we have shooted some unwanted contents which we don’t want to include in the movie. In that case we can use Losslesscut video trimmer free application to cut the unwated portion of the video file. This application can be used to cut both audio and video files.

Losslesscut free video cutter app is a cross platform application available for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS. You will find basic feature like pause & resume videos, easily take snapshots, use scissor tool to cut the video by marking start time & end time. Keyboard shortcuts are available to control all features which makes your work more faster & easier. Supports so many video formats like mkv, mov, mp4 and so on and supportable audio files are mp3, wav…etc..

Losslesscut video trimmer free application is a portable application hence not required to install it. Just download & extract the package to use the application.

Follow the below steps to install Losslesscut free video cutter app in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best video trimmer free application for Linux

So let’s have a look at installation part of Losslesscut free video cutter app. Before we start the installation let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/atareao/telegram/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                        
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial InRelease        
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                  
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dr-akulavich/lighttable/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/embrosyn/xapps/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mhsabbagh/greenproject/ubuntu xenial InRelease 
Reading package lists... Done

Now we have to download the Losslesscut video trimmer free application package from official website. So use the below command to download the same.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ wget https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/download/v1.9.0/LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip
--2017-12-15 19:04:19--  https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/download/v1.9.0/LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
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Saving to: ‘LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip’

LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip                  100%[=====================================================================================>]  80.10M   613KB/s    in 2m 19s  

2017-12-15 19:06:41 (589 KB/s) - ‘LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip’ saved [83990584/83990584]

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Here I have already downloaded the Losslesscut video cutter package. Refer the output below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ ls -l LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip   # Downloaded Package
-rw-rw-r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 83990584 Nov 21 14:26 LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip

As you can see below the downloaded Losslesscut free video cutter app package is in zip format. So to use this application we have to extract it. Hence use the below command to extract the package.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ unzip LosslessCut-linux-x64.zip   # Extract the download Package

After extract the package you will get a directory named “LosslessCut-linux-x64“. Just go in to the directory using cd command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ cd LosslessCut-linux-x64/   # Go in to the extracted directory 

You will get all Losslesscut video trimmer free application supporting files inside the directory. Here we are concern with the script file “LosslessCut“.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~/LosslessCut-linux-x64$ ls -l   # Supporting Files
total 122784
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook    24844 Nov 21 23:03 blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook       15 Nov 21 23:03 content_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 10141945 Nov 21 23:03 content_shell.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 10130464 Nov 21 23:03 icudtl.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook  2960824 Nov 21 23:03 libffmpeg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 20341616 Nov 21 23:03 libnode.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook     1060 Nov 21 23:03 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook  1708004 Nov 21 23:03 LICENSES.chromium.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 elinuxbook elinuxbook     4096 Nov 21 23:03 locales
-rwxr-xr-x 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook 78816464 Nov 21 23:03 LosslessCut
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook   342741 Nov 21 23:03 natives_blob.bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 elinuxbook elinuxbook     4096 Nov 21 23:03 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook   993500 Nov 21 23:03 snapshot_blob.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook   163267 Nov 21 23:03 ui_resources_200_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook        6 Nov 21 23:03 version
-rw-r--r-- 1 elinuxbook elinuxbook    60144 Nov 21 23:03 views_resources_200_percent.pak

So just run the below command to directly open the Losslesscut free video cutter app. As i said earlier it’s an portable application and not need of any installation.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~/LosslessCut-linux-x64$ ./LosslessCut   # Open the application

Here below I have mentioned the snapshot of Losslesscut video trimmer free application :

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