Looking for Avidemux alternative

[eddman]

I quite like Avidemux. It can edit and output videos without re-encoding which is a big plus for me, but it's a bit prone to crashing and doesn't seem to be able to transfer chapters or subtitles from input files to the saved files.

Is there any other editor that can edit without re-encoding and, preferably, also be able to work with subs or chapters?

[Music Fan]

For MKV, there is MKV Cutter ;
http://forum.selur.de/post2437.html
It's a GUI that uses different free tools (MKVmerge, avisynth, x264 ...). It does smart rendering but only works with progressive h264.
I don't know if it works with pgs subtitles or only srt.

[boondoc]

I quite like Avidemux. It can edit and output videos without re-encoding which is a big plus for me, but it's a bit prone to crashing and doesn't seem to be able to transfer chapters or subtitles from input files to the saved files.

Is there any other editor that can edit without re-encoding and, preferably, also be able to work with subs or chapters?

Avidemux recently had an update in November so that version might solve your issues. I had audio sync issues with Avidemux previously but it could be fine now. I use Virtualdub when I had problems with a file on Avidemux but now use it more frequently.

It needs this codecx264vfw (https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/?source=directory) to edit x264 files and this plugin Virtualdub FFMpeg Input Plugin (sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubffmpeginputplugin/) for container formats like mkv.

Edit- Xmedia recode looks like a nice small program that can also output in MKV which Virtualdub cannot and it doesn't need external codecs/filters.