Open Source Video Converters

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  1. VLC Media Player icon
     7736 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Apple Watch
    • Snapcraft
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Haiku
    • Android TV
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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    +4
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    170 alternatives
    4.4
    Very Good236 reviews
  2. HandBrake icon
     2050 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
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    210 alternatives
    4.4
    Very Good62 reviews
  3. FFmpeg icon
     684 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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    +1
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    104 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent21 reviews
  4. Avidemux icon
     656 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
    Avidemux screenshot 1
    Main window
    Bitrate/size calculator
    +4
    Video filter manager
    159 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
    70 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FFmpeg
    Main Window
    options
    130 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.
    90 alternatives
  8. 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
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    +9
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    23 alternatives
  9. 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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    138 alternatives
  10. Yarn.co icon
     8 likes

    Yarn is the best way to find video clips by quote. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    +7
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    7 alternatives
  11. 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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    182 alternatives
  12. Free video converter that runs in your browser — no uploads, 100% private. Powered by FFmpeg WebAssembly. 20+ formats, quality presets, device profiles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    Audio bitrate settings: Auto, 320kbps, 256kbps, 192kbps, 128kbps
    Conversion complete: 86% file size reduction, 11.3 MB output
    Real-time conversion progress with speed and time remaining
    +8
    10 device profiles: iPhone, Android, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp
    3 alternatives
  13. Moonvert icon
     1 like

    Moonvert is a local, open-source file converter for macOS that allows you to batch convert images, audio, video, documents, configs, and geospatial files offline, ensuring your data is never uploaded to the cloud.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Light & Dark themes
    +2
    Open from Finder
    10 alternatives
  14. 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
    75 alternatives