Phonon Alternatives

Phonon is described as 'The Qt multimedia toolkit. It allows developers to add multimedia functionality to applications with minimal effort' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Phonon for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Phonon alternative is FFmpeg, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Phonon are PipeWire, Adobe Media Encoder, GStreamer and Total Video Converter.

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  1. FFmpeg icon
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    Comprehensive multimedia framework for decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback of nearly any audio or video format, with command-line tools, integrated libraries, portable code, and regular security updates for users and developers.

    95 FFmpeg alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. PipeWire icon
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    PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK.

    7 PipeWire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
     
  3. GStreamer icon
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    GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

    11 GStreamer alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. An extremely powerful and full-featured video converter which converts any video and audio to mp4, avi, iPhone, iPad, mobile, PSP, DVD... and burns video to DVD, AVCHD, Blu-Ray and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. NewPlayer icon
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    NewPlayer is a media framework, which is independent of NewPipe itself. I decided to make it independent, because one of the big issues we have with the current player is that it is deeply integrated into NewPipe.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Kotlin
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Convert videos between all the popular media formats at high speed and quality, share on YouTube and Facebook, and extract audio with ease. Choose the standard version or step up to Pro for added DVD burning and ripping power.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7.  1 like

    Librempeg is a fork of FFmpeg made by Paul B. Mahol, a former 10 year plus contributor of FFmpeg.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  8. 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
     
  9. AnotherGUI icon
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    AnotherGUI is a graphical front-end for audio/video command line converter (such as ffmpeg/ffmbc). Main features: parallel batch processing (better usage of multi core/threads CPU's). support of complexes options in presets (compatible with studio and professional settings).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Gihosoft Total Video Converter is a extremely powerful and full-featured video converter which converts more than 1000 video and audio formats for playing on any device. Moreover, with awesome editing tools, you can easily create and edit your personalized videos.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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