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 100 alternatives to FFmpeg for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android 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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  1. There are so many interesting things to be found on YouTube, but you can’t download the videos or save them as audio files. That is why we developed YouTube Downloader. This application will help you to accomplish video downloads quickly and without hangups.

    112 MediaHuman YouTube Downloader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. StreamPot icon
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    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)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Laurix icon
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    Laurix is a macOS desktop app built for web developers, designers and motion designers who need optimized animated assets fast.

    4 Laurix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Transloadit icon
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    Transloadit handles file uploads, resize, crop and watermark your images, make GIFs, transcode your videos, extract thumbnails, generate audio waveforms, and so much more. In short, it is a Swiss Army Knife for your files and a one-stop place for developers that are looking to...

    17 Transloadit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Selene is an audio/video converter for converting files to various formats. It aims to provide a simple GUI for converting files to popular formats along with powerful command-line options for automated/unattended encoding.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. MFormats SDK is an easy way to access FFmpeg's rich set of video codecs, file containers and network streams from your C#, VB.NET, Delphi and C++ application. Using FFmpeg may be tricky. Integrating MFormats with your application will take just a few lines of code.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  7. 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
     
  8. AfterCodecs plugins for Adobe CC, giving you the best and missing codecs for faster exports!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Premiere Pro
     
  9. fmedia icon
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    fmedia is a fast media player/recorder/converter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • FreeBSD
     
  10. MCEBuddy icon
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    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
     
  11. 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!

    92 Adapter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. MediaFlow icon
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    MediaFlow is a local-first desktop app for people who work with media files, subtitles and multi-track containers. It brings track extraction, track merge/muxing, transcoding, audio-to-subtitles, video OCR, AI subtitle translation, batch renaming and file inspection into one...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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