Open Source Adobe Media Encoder Alternatives

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

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  1. Datura icon
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    Datura is a native Mac OS X interface for one of the most famous command line video encoder ffmpeg. Thanks to ffmpeg, Datura is able to deal with almost all video muxers, video and audio codecs !

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Gordian Knot icon
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    Gordian Knot started out as a simple bitrate calculator for DivX encoding but has evolved to become an integrated package or tool for the entire process of DivX/XviD encoding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. HRConvert2 icon
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    HRConvert2 is an open-source web-app that converts files without tracking users across the net or infringing on your intellectual property.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. 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
     
  6. WebM for bakas. Basically, a wrapper around ffmpeg made for converting videos to WebM without having to use the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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