Open Source Video Converters

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  1. VLC Media Player icon
     7700 likes

    Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more.

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    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Apple Watch
    • Snapcraft
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Haiku
    • Android TV
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
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    168 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent232 reviews
  2. HandBrake icon
     2031 likes

    An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
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    197 alternatives
    4.4
    Very Good61 reviews
  3. FFmpeg icon
     674 likes

    Cross-platform multimedia framework performing decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback for nearly all media formats.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    95 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent21 reviews
  4. Avidemux icon
     651 likes

    Linear video editor for basic cutting, filtering, encoding, scripting, and batch processing; supports many formats but not for non-linear or montage editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
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    Main window
    Bitrate/size calculator
    +4
    Video filter manager
    153 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good29 reviews
  5. Compress Videos for Free. Forever. Say goodbye to bulky files! Crush video sizes by 90% with no quality loss, even offline. And the best part? It's free!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    UI for How the tool looks like
    Landing Page UI
    64 alternatives
  6. WinFF icon
     71 likes

    WinFF is a GUI frontend and batch parser for the command-line multimedia tool FFmpeg. WinFF works by making a batch file that runs in the command-line, designed to launch the command-line tool with given settings from a preset.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FFmpeg
    • Lazarus
    Main Window
    options
    123 alternatives
  7. MeGUI icon
     57 likes

    Versatile video converter with DVD ripping, format support for x264, AAC, MP3, and containers like MP4, MKV. Offers user-friendly GUI and batch processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    First screen when launched. This is where you select your inputs and configure encoding settings.
    This is the view of all the jobs done and ready to be done. AVS files are not the only supported input. Many others are supported.
    85 alternatives
  8. MEncoder icon
     24 likes

    MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a sibling of MPlayer , and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • MPlayer
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    132 alternatives
  9. QWinFF icon
     17 likes

    QWinFF is a GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful command-line media converter. FFmpeg can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats. QWinFF provides an intuitive graphical interface and a rich set of presets to help you use ffmpeg easily without...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    181 alternatives
  10. Unlike other apps that use slow, bulky, old versions of FFmpeg with software encoding, Compressor uses Android's native Media3 Hardware Acceleration to process video faster than any other app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    +2
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    1 alternatives
  11. ASXGui icon
     3 likes

    An open source video encoder GUI. It aims to be the most user friendly and easy to use encoding solution, while also providing advanced features for power users. Current version (2.x) is developed in VB.NET, however, it is being ported to C# for v. 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Initial screen, drag and drop encouraged!
    Seeing in detail what is going on.
    Output formats
    73 alternatives
  12. Convert all your video to the latest and next generation video codec. The H.265 standard, able to produce same quality while reduce bandwidth up to 50%, which mean capable shrink half of original file size!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    151 alternatives
  13. Flowframes icon
     5 likes

    Flowframes is a simple but powerful app that utilizes AI frameworks to interpolate videos in order to increase their framerate with little to no noticeable quality loss.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    8 alternatives