HandBrake Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to HandBrake for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is FFmpeg, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to HandBrake and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to HandBrake are Shutter Encoder, Avidemux, MakeMKV and FormatLab.

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

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HandBrake alternatives page was last updated Feb 13, 2025
  1. QWinFF icon
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    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...

    196 QWinFF alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    QWinFF Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Built-in editor
    3.  Multiple languages
    4.  Convert video to audio (mp3)
    Discontinued

    The project is still developed as of 2018, but latest version, 0.2.1, dates back August 2015. It can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  2. Selene Media Converter icon
     6 likes

    Selene is an audio/video converter for converting files to various formats. It aims to provide a simple GUI for converting files to popular formats along with powerful command-line options for automated/unattended encoding.

    28 Selene Media Converter alternatives
    Edit Preset

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last updated Jul 26, 2017.The developer is also known from their other projects, like timeshift backup tool and it's also not being updated anymore.

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  3. Transcoder icon
     2 likes

    Transcoder is a video converter for Linux using GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend.

    100 Transcoder alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    Discontinued

    No more development since 2011-08-14

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  4. Panther Media Converter icon
     3 likes

    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.

    150 Panther Media Converter alternatives
    Main window

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update 4 years ago: https://github.com/sankha93/Panther

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  5. optimizeVideo icon
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    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.

    31 optimizeVideo alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. FFmpegYAG icon
     10 likes

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

    125 FFmpegYAG alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    FFmpegYAG Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Crop video
    3.  Support for subtitles
    4.  Trim video
    Discontinued

    The project seems no longer developed. Last version, 0.7.6, released in July , can be still downloaded from SourceForge

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  7. Format Junkie icon
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    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.

    112 Format Junkie alternatives
    Format Junkie screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Format Junkie Features

    1.  Embed subtitles into video
    Discontinued

    No updates since 2012-07-09

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