FFmpeg Alternatives

FFmpeg is described as 'Cross-platform multimedia framework performing decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback for nearly all media formats' and is a leading Audio Converter in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to FFmpeg for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best FFmpeg alternative is HandBrake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FFmpeg are Avidemux, MKVToolnix, Shutter Encoder and Video Compression.

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  1. There are so many interesting things to be found on YouTube, but you can’t download the videos or save them as audio files. That is why we developed YouTube Downloader. This application will help you to accomplish video downloads quickly and without hangups.

    108 MediaHuman YouTube Downloader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. MFormats SDK is an easy way to access FFmpeg's rich set of video codecs, file containers and network streams from your C#, VB.NET, Delphi and C++ application. Using FFmpeg may be tricky. Integrating MFormats with your application will take just a few lines of code.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Medialooks MFormats SDK vs FFmpeg Comments
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    MFormats SDK offers an easier API to many features of FFmpeg, plus some of its own.

    • Medialooks MFormats SDK is Paid and ProprietaryFFmpeg is Free and Open Source
  3. FFQueue icon
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    FFQueue is (yet another) graphical user interface for FFMpeg with comprehensive support for both the basic features but also the more advanced features like filtergraphs.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. AfterCodecs plugins for Adobe CC, giving you the best and missing codecs for faster exports!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Premiere Pro
     
  5. Adapter icon
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    Adapter is a free video converter for Mac & PC. It converts avi, saves flash .flv, crops video and more! It even works with audio and image files so you can convert wav to mp3 and transform jpg files!

    90 Adapter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. MCEBuddy icon
     2 likes

    Convert Videos, Remove Commercials and Ads for your Windows Media Center, TV Recordings and any other Video.

    58 MCEBuddy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Intuitive to use and completely free video converter to process multiple files at a time. Popular and widely used formats such as MP4, AVI, MKV, 3GP, WMV, MOV, M4V, MPG, M2TS, MTS and others are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. StreamPot icon
     Like

    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)
     
  9. Video Converter Plus is a fast and convenient video converter that allows you to convert video and audio from a wide range of formats for playback and sharing on any device and platform. Whenever you want to convert a video or audio file, this video transcoding software will...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Roadmovie icon
     3 likes

    Professional video encoding for humans

    Simply the best way to get your videos subtitled, metadata tagged, chapterized, encoded and uploaded to your portable device or website. RoadMovie 2 brings you "video-encoding-super-powers" in a friendly and easy to use interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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