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We've compiled a list of 21 free and paid alternatives to FFmpeg. The primary competitors include HandBrake, Avidemux. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between FFmpeg and MKVToolnix, Adobe Media Encoder CC, Microsoft Expression Encoder. Also you can look at other similar options here: File Management Tools.


HandBrake
Free Open Source

HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder: it converts digital media from one...

Avidemux
Free Open Source

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

MKVToolnix
Free Open Source

MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices...

Adobe Media Encoder is a standalone video encoding application for Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Subler
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Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.

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FFmpeg Overview

FFmpeg is an open source project that develops libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. FFmpeg is the home to libavcodec, a codec library used by a large spectrum of programs, and libavformat, a mux and demux library for containers. The project develops 4 command-line programs; ffmpeg, the central tool for transcoding multimedia files, as well as ffplay, a simple media player for previewing files, ffprobe, a profiling tool for scanning containers, and ffserver, a network streaming server.

FFmpeg is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+ or GNU General Public License 2+ (depending on which options are enabled).

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FFmpeg Tags

video-decoding tag-editor splitters post-processor multimedia-framework media-info codecs video-encoding video-transcoder command-line

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