FFmpeg Alternatives

FFmpeg is described as 'Cross-platform multimedia framework performing decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback for nearly all media formats' and is a leading Audio Converter in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to FFmpeg for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best FFmpeg alternative is HandBrake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FFmpeg are Avidemux, MKVToolnix, Video Compression and Shutter Encoder.

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FFmpeg alternatives are mainly Video Converters, but if you're looking for Audio Converters or Video Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to FFmpeg.
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  1. FFQueue icon
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    FFQueue is (yet another) graphical user interface for FFMpeg with comprehensive support for both the basic features but also the more advanced features like filtergraphs.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. AfterCodecs plugins for Adobe CC, giving you the best and missing codecs for faster exports!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Premiere Pro
     
  3. Adapter icon
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    Adapter is a free video converter for Mac & PC. It converts avi, saves flash .flv, crops video and more! It even works with audio and image files so you can convert wav to mp3 and transform jpg files!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. MCEBuddy icon
     2 likes

    Convert Videos, Remove Commercials and Ads for your Windows Media Center, TV Recordings and any other Video.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Intuitive to use and completely free video converter to process multiple files at a time. Popular and widely used formats such as MP4, AVI, MKV, 3GP, WMV, MOV, M4V, MPG, M2TS, MTS and others are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. StreamPot icon
     Like

    StreamPot is a project that provides scaffolding for transforming media in your app (e.g. trimming a video, stripping the audio from a video, transcoding a video from mp4 to webp).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Bink Video icon
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    Bink 2 is massively better than Bink 1. You'll be shocked at how low you can drop the data rate while maintaining beautiful quality.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Video Converter Plus is a fast and convenient video converter that allows you to convert video and audio from a wide range of formats for playback and sharing on any device and platform. Whenever you want to convert a video or audio file, this video transcoding software will...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Roadmovie icon
     3 likes

    Professional video encoding for humans

    Simply the best way to get your videos subtitled, metadata tagged, chapterized, encoded and uploaded to your portable device or website. RoadMovie 2 brings you "video-encoding-super-powers" in a friendly and easy to use interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. TMPGEnc 4.0 Video Mastering Works gives you the freedom to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX, AVI, QuickTime, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray Disc and much more.

    99 TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. H.264 Encoder icon
     3 likes

    This simple software reduce effectively video's size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. WebM for bakas. Basically, a wrapper around ffmpeg made for converting videos to WebM without having to use the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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