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, Shutter Encoder and Video Compression.

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  1. DVDShrink icon
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    DVDShrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

    63 DVDShrink alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  2. Roxio Creator icon
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    Comprehensive multimedia suite with over 20 integrated applications offering disc burning, video capture and editing, photo editing, file conversion, DVD authoring, and encryption, ensuring versatile media management and online sharing capabilities.

    317 Roxio Creator alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. 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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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. 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.

    121 MediaHuman YouTube Downloader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. 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...

    21 Transloadit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. 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.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  8. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. 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
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  10. Many online file conversion tools are boring and insecure. They only allow conversion between two formats in the same medium (images to images, videos to videos, etc.), and they require that you upload your files to some server.

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    • Online
    • Docker
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  11. 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.

    66 FFQueue alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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