Ubuntu Restricted Extras Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Ubuntu Restricted Extras for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is FFmpeg, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Ubuntu Restricted Extras and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Ubuntu Restricted Extras are MPlayer, GStreamer, Phonon and Voukoder Pro.

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  1. FFmpeg icon
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    Comprehensive multimedia framework for decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback of nearly any audio or video format, with command-line tools, integrated libraries, portable code, and regular security updates for users and developers.

    116 FFmpeg alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
     
  2. MPlayer icon
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    MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.

    131 MPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    • MorphOS
    • Haiku
     
  3. GStreamer icon
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    GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

    11 GStreamer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Phonon icon
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    Phonon is the Qt multimedia toolkit. It allows developers to add multimedia functionality to applications with minimal effort.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • BSD
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Voukoder Pro icon
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    Voukoder Pro is a system wide video- and audio encoding service that improves your media encoding experience.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. optimizeVideo is just a simple wrapper around ffmpeg, but that saves a lot of guessing. It analyzes the contents of a target video file, and sets the conversion parameters according to Google standards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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