WinFF Alternatives for Linux

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder- it converts digital media from one format to another, compressing the files in the process. Handbrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on Mac OS X, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows). Handbrake supports: -Any Blu-ray or DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB, .m2ts, and .TS files.

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QWinFF

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 having to type a single command. Advanced users can also adjust conversion parameters like bitrate and sample rate in detail.

• 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.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

MEncoder

MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a sibling of MPlayer , and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs. MEncoder is included in the MPlayer distribution. MEncoder is also supported on BSD and Haiku/BeOS platforms.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... MPlayer

TEncoder Video Converter

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. Up to 8 simultaneous encoders can be run so encoding time decreases. You can select between multiple audio and subtitle tracks. Extracting video or audio content is possible. Edit subtitle and audio delays and part of video that will be encoded.

• Discontinued The project is not in development anymore and the SourceForge page is no longer available. Last version, 4.5.10, released in November 2015, can be still downloaded from VideoHelp.com

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FFQueue

FFQueue is a FREE and comprehensive GUI for the FFMpeg command line encoder: Convert audio and video from everything to everything! It supports for both the basic features but also the more advanced features like filtergraphs. FFQueue makes it easy to create multiple jobs and process them as a single queue.

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Selene Media Converter

Selene is an audio/video converter for converting files to OGG/OGV/ MKV/MP4/WEBM/OPUS/AAC/FLAC/MP3/WAV formats. It aims to provide a simple GUI for converting files to popular formats along with powerful command-line options for automated/unattended encoding. Features * Encode videos to MKV/MP4/OGV/WEBM formats. * Encode music to MP3/AAC/OGG/OPUS/FLAC/WAV formats.

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FF Multi Converter

FF Multi Converter is a simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, using and combining other programs. It uses ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and PythonMagick library for image file conversions. The goal of FF Multi Converter is to gather all multimedia types in one application and provide conversions for them easily through a user-friendly interface.

Free Open Source Linux

Internet Friendly Media Encoder

Convert all your video to the latest and next generation video codec. The H.265 standard, able to produce same quality while reduce bandwidth up to 50%, which mean capable shrink half of original file size! Using IFME allow to encode your media file into H.265 standard by using Open Source x265, with simple and friendly interface (GUI). Also capable to encode and compress much more your lossless audio by using OpenCL acceleration. Features: - 64bit native encoder. - Queue encoding.

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dmMediaConverter

dmMediaConverter is a crossplatform FFmpeg frontend (GUI) exposing some of its features. It is intended to be simple and easy to use but also to be able to achieve complex tasks. I have inspired myself from a lot of media converters like Handbrake, WinFF and MkvMergeGui. One feature was lacking from most of them, video stream copy (pass-through), that made me build this.

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Hybrid

Hybrid is a multi platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) Qt based frontend for a bunch of other tools which can convert nearly every input to x264/Xvid/VP8 + ac3/ogg/mp3/aac/flac inside an mp4/m2ts/mkv/webm/mov/avi container, a Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure.

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Mobile Media Converter

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and 3GP video. iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are supported. Moreover, you can remove and add new formats or devices through the internet.

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FFmpegYAG

FFmpegYAG is an advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool. Main features: * batch encoding for multiple tasks * interactive video preview, real-time video/audio playback * multiple streams processing for video/audio/subtitles * trim file to segments (with optional fade in/out filters) and concatenate them

• 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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Curlew

Simple video converter

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Arista

Arista is a simple to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Choose an input file, DVD, or Video 4 Linux device, an output device, a preset and go. Features live encoding preview, automatic discovery of input sources, etc.

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Ciano

Ciano is a desktop multimedia conversion application responsible for converting videos, music and images. Originally created to provide the best possible experience in the elementary operating system, Ciano makes use of the largest conversion tools: FFmpeg and ImageMagick Focused on simplicity, Ciano brings a new approach to using FFmpeg, without the need to write a single command line code.

Free Open Source Linux elementary OS

traGtor

traGtor is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the awesome conversion tool ffmpeg and its fork avconv for the use with Linux-OS. It is written in Python and uses the GTK-Engine (standard in GNOME desktops) for displaying it’s interface. The goal of traGtor is not to bring you all of the features ffmpeg offers, but to be a fast and user friendly choice for converting a single media file into any other format. For a full ffmpeg featuring GUI please refer to the other great projects listed below.

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OggConvert

OggConvert is a small Gnome utility that uses GStreamer to convert media files to the licence-free Theora, Dirac and Vorbis formats. The main selling points are: * It's painfully easy to use: drag a file onto the source bar (or use the file chooser) and hit convert. Of course, you can also change the quality settings and the output filename if you like.

• Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 0.3.3, released on 24 May 2010, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine and Launchpad.

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Panther Media Converter

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.

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

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Firefogg

Video and audio encoding for Firefox. Can be used offline by saving http://firefogg.org/make/index.html to your computer.

• Discontinued See notice on homepage: http://firefogg.org/

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avconv

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. avconv reads from an arbitrary number of input "files" (which can be regular files, pipes, network streams, grabbing devices, etc.), specified by the -i option, and writes to an arbitrary number of output "files", which are specified by a plain output filename.

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Hyper Video Converter

Hyper Video Converter is a frontend for ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora and mencoder.

• Discontinued Latest update from 2008: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypervideoconve/files/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Format Junkie

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.

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ffmpeg2theora

A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.

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Transcoder

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

Free Linux Xfce

VideoConverter (by BTone)

VideoConverter is a Linux application which uses ffmpeg as its engine, it is a graphical user interface which sits on top of ffmpeg, it makes very complicated and time consuming tasks very quick and easy to do. VideoConverter is completely free for everyone to use, but if you find it useful, then we do have a Donate page.

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