Free Adobe Media Encoder Alternatives

The best free alternative to Adobe Media Encoder is HandBrake, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder are FFmpeg, Avidemux, fre:ac and File Converter.

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  1. Convert all your video to the latest and next generation video codec. The H.265 standard, able to produce same quality while reduce bandwidth up to 50%, which mean capable shrink half of original file size!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Ubuntu's commitment to only include completely free software by default means that proprietary media formats are not configured 'out of the box'. However, you can install the ability to play popular non-free media formats, including DVD, MP3, Quicktime, and Windows...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. MPEG Streamclip icon
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    MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and...

    95 MPEG Streamclip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Python GUI for Video Encoder using handbrake or ffmpeg.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  6. FFAStrans icon
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    FFAStrans is a powerful and easy to use Task automation Engine, mostly used in but not limited to the wonderful world of audio and video visual content creation and management. Also known as workflow engine, transcoder, Enterprise Service Bus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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
     
  8. FFMPEG Audio Encoder is a very power audio encoder. It executes ffmpeg.exe, qaac64.exe, and fdk-aac.exe to process audio files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Cisdem VideoPaw is the fastest and most stable all-in-one video solution for Mac and Windows. It allows you to convert videos from and to all popular formats, download videos from popular video sites, rip DVD/Blu-ray movies, compress, record, and edit your videos.

    93 Cisdem VideoPaw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Free Audio Converter supports all popular audio file formats. It converts between aac, ac3, aiff, ape, flac, m4a, m4b, mka, mp3, ogg, ra, tta, wav, wma, and more...

    It is the best MP3 converter on the net. It creates superior MP3 quality with the help of alternative MP3 LAME Enc.

    64 Free Audio Converter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. OggConvert icon
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    OggConvert is a small Gnome utility that uses GStreamer to convert media files to the licence-free Theora, Dirac and Vorbis formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

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