Platforms
- Linux

One of the most popular alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder is HandBrake, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are FFmpeg, Avidemux, fre:ac and File Converter. You're spoiled for choice with Video Converters like Adobe Media Encoder: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.

avconv is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter.




FFmpegYAG is an advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool.



TMPGEnc 4.0 Video Mastering Works gives you the freedom to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX, AVI, QuickTime, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray Disc and much more.



Transmageddon is a video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer. It supports almost any format as its input and can generate a very large host of output files. The goal of the application was to help people to create the files they need to be able to play on...

Building convertr.xyz which currently supports Video and Audio for now and is free currently for unlimited usage. Any reviews are greatly appreciated.




Panther is a free and open source program that you can use to encode your audio and video files from one format to the other. It has a simple user interface and should be very easy to get started with. It can even reduce the size of music files.


Format Junkie is a Linux application for converting audio, video and image files to multiple popular different formats. The program is just a frontend to avconv and to ImageMagick.


CD and DVD Burner An application for copying and burning CDs and DVDs, authoring and creating DVDs with menus and chapters, and editing or converting audio content.




Convert your files from one file type to another without downloading any software. Convert for free almost any type of ebooks, documents, archives, spreadsheets, audio and video files to your desire file format. Convert YouTube to mp3.

TEncoder is a multithreaded video and audio converter that uses MEncoder, MPlayer and FFMpeg. It can convert almost every video and audio type to each other. Subtitles with same name as video can be hard-coded into video.

