Open Source Linux Video Encoders
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View 20 business solutionsBrowse free open source Video Encoders and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Video Encoders by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Shotcut
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k. Copyright © 2011-2023 by Meltytech, LLC Shotcut is a trademark of Meltytech, LLC. -
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FFmpeg Batch AV Converter
Free all in one audio/video ffmpeg batch encoder
FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free universal audio and video encoder for Windows and Linux (via Wine), that allows to use the full potential of ffmpeg command line with a few mouse clicks in a convenient GUI with drag and drop, progress information. Some fancy wizards make things easy for non-experts. Thanks to its multi-file encoding feature, it may be the fastest a/v batch encoder available, since it maximizes system resources usage by launching as many simultaneous processes up to user cpu thread count. You can change encoding priority, pause and resume, set automatic shutdown. It is good for seasoned ffmpeg users as well as beginners. It provides unlimited single or multi-file batch encoding for almost any audio/video format. You can use any set of parameters and try them before starting encoding. You can multiplex streams, subtitle videos (as track and hardcoded), trim, concatenate, record screen, multimedia info. Included youtube-dl / yt-dlp frontend GUI to download urls. -
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Weylus
Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer
Weylus turns your tablet or smart phone into a graphic tablet/touch screen for your computer! No apps except a modern browser (Firefox 80+, iOS/iPadOS 13+) are required on your tablet. Start Weylus, preferably set an access code in the access code box and press the Start button. This will start a webserver running on your computer. To control your computer with your tablet you need to open the url http://<address of your computer>:<port set in the menu, default is 1701>, if possible Weylus will display to you the url you need to open and show a QR code with the encoded address. If you have a firewall running make sure to open a TCP port for the webserver (1701 by default) and the websocket connection (9001 by default). -
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HandBrake
A open source video to convert video from any format to modern codecs
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. -
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FFmpegKit
FFmpeg Kit for applications. Supports Android, Flutter, iOS, Linux, ma
FFmpegKit is a collection of tools to use FFmpeg in Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, tvOS, Flutter and React Native applications. It includes scripts to build FFmpeg native libraries, a wrapper library to run FFmpeg/FFprobe commands in applications and 8 prebuilt binary packages available at Github, Maven Central, CocoaPods, pub and npm. All scripts support additional options to enable optional libraries and disable platform architectures. FFmpegKit is a wrapper library that allows you to easily run FFmpeg/FFprobe commands in applications. It provides additional features on top of FFmpeg to enable platform-specific resources, control how commands are executed and how the results are handled. There are eight different ffmpeg-kit packages distributed on Github, Maven Central, CocoaPods, pub and npm. Below you can see which system libraries and external libraries are enabled in each one of them. -
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mrViewer
Flipbook, Image Viewer and Audio-Video Player
This project is no longer active. It has been replaced by mrv2 at: www.sourceforge.net/p/mrv2 A video player, interactive image viewer, and flipbook for use in VFX, 3D computer graphics and professional illustration. -
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rav1e
The fastest and safest AV1 encoder
rav1e is an open-source implementation of an encoder for the AV1 video codec, developed in Rust (with some assembly) by the community around Xiph Foundation. Its design philosophy is to start from a correct, minimal, and fast AV1 encoder — sacrificing some encoding speed/efficiency of reference encoders in exchange for simplicity, stability, and compilability across platforms — and then gradually improve. This makes rav1e particularly attractive for scenarios where you need AV1 encoding but care about build-time, portability, and maintenance overhead, or where the full-featured reference encoder might be prohibitively slow. Despite aiming for simplicity, rav1e supports a wide range of AV1 features: different bit depths, chroma subsampling formats, prediction and transform modes, and block partitioning options, which means it can produce reasonably efficient compressed video. -
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FFmpeg
Tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles...
A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles, and related metadata. Provides an implementation of a wider range of codecs. Implements streaming protocols, container formats, and basic I/O access. Includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions. Provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters. Provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices. Implements audio mixing and resampling routines. Implements color conversion and scaling routines. FFmpeg is a command-line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content. ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player. FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. -
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ffmpeg.wasm
FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly
ffmpeg.wasm is a pure WebAssembly (and JavaScript/TypeScript) port of FFmpeg that enables in-browser media recording, conversion, and streaming—letting developers perform video/audio processing entirely client-side without server uploads. Transpiled via Emscripten from FFmpeg and its codecs into WebAssembly. Supports both single-threaded and multi-threaded cores using web workers. Written in TypeScript for improved developer experience. -
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libavif
Library for encoding and decoding .avif files
libavif is a portable, open-source C library that implements encoding and decoding for the AVIF (AV1 Image File Format), offering a robust, production-ready way to work with AVIF images across platforms. It supports all AV1-supported YUV formats and bit-depths, including alpha (transparency), and includes command-line tools (avifenc and avifdec) to easily convert to/from AVIF from common image formats like JPEG, PNG, or Y4M. The API is straightforward, allowing applications to integrate AVIF support natively — creating, decoding, compressing, or decompressing images programmatically. Recent developments have added experimental support for HDR gain maps, improved color-space handling (including wide color gamut and high bit depth), and better quality tuning modes for encoding, making libavif a cutting-edge tool for high-quality image compression. -
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FFmpegYAG
FFmpeg GUI for Linux & Windows
FFmpegYAG is an advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool. To use all features (split/concat, x264 10 bit, HE-AAC) it is recommend to use the FFmpeg Hi (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-hi/) build. 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 -
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Internet Friendly Media Encoder
Simple, Flexible & Powerful H.265/HEVC & H266/VVC video encoder!
A versatile, future-proof, and expandable multimedia encoder designed for ease of use. Internet Friendly Media Encoder supports adding subtitles and attachments, and can function as a remuxing tool with a Copy Stream option. It allows you to combine multiple video, audio, subtitle, and attachment streams into a single file, remove unwanted streams, or incorporate subtitles from another video without extracting. The software also supports AviSynth for advanced video processing. The video and audio encoders are implemented in a plug-in style, enabling users to add their own compiled, optimized CPU architectures for increased speed. This modular design ensures that the encoder remains adaptable and expandable, allowing for the addition of new and future encoding technologies. Internet Friendly Media Encoder also supports hardware acceleration from Intel, AMD, and NVidia for encoding in H264, H265, and AV1 formats. -
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q4rescue
A live linux Rescue toolkit/Emergency OS - based on q4os Trinity
A live linux system rescue toolkit based on q4os Trinity available as a bootable iso for administrating, repairing and cloning/restoring your system and data. Check wiki for full description : https://sourceforge.net/p/q4rescue/wiki/ Main tools: -Foxclone -Rescuezilla -Clonezilla -DDrescue-gui -qtfsarchiver -G4L -Apart -Testdisk -Photorec -Boot Repair -WoeUSB -Q4OS imager -UNetbootin -usbimager -Kdirstats -Kdiskmark -Rclone & Rclone BRowser -Reminna -Filezilla -qbittorrent -gohttpserver -chromium -nwipe -ntpw-gui -efibootmgr -zenmap (nmap gui) -Abiword -smp/mpv ... + usefull terminal tools like duf, ncdu,flashfetch,... + q4os tools -With an interface in the style of 'Windows 10' for easier handling by a large number of users. **password for user & root : "live" (without quotes) -versions history: check wiki. ** Please report bugs, or suggest features :-) -
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Shutter Encoder
Free professional video converter Windows|Mac|Linux
Shutter Encoder is an video, audio and image converter based on FFmpeg and other great tools. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible. It's a swiss knife tool for any video editor. Link to website & downloads : https://www.shutterencoder.com - Without conversion: Cut without re-encoding, Replace audio, Rewrap, Conform, Merge, Extract, Subtitling, Video inserts - Sound conversions: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, AC3, OPUS, OGG - Editing codecs: DNxHD, DNxHR, Apple ProRes, QT Animation, GoPro CineForm, Uncompressed YUV - Output codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, OGV - Broadcast codecs: XDCAM HD422, AVC-Intra 100, XAVC, HAP - Old codecs: DV PAL, MJPEG, Xvid, WMV, MPEG - Archiving codec: FFV1 - Images creation: JPEG, Image - Burn & Rip: DVD, Blu-ray, DVD RIP - Analysis: Loudness & True Peak, Audio normalization, Cut detection, Black detection, Media, VMAF - Download: Web video -
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Multimedia architecture consisting of libraries and applications. Libraries include gavl for low level audio/video support and gmerlin_avdecoder, a multiformat decoding library. Applications include a GUI player with mediatree and a GUI transcoder.
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DVDx 4.0 is a very easy to use audio/video encoder and a powerful DVD copier. Read DVDs and audio/video files, encode to popular video formats: (S)VCD/CVD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, MP3, MP4/AAC etc.
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AV1 AVIF
AV1 Image File Format Specification - ISO-BMFF/HEIF derivative
AV1 AVIF is the official specification and reference design for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), defining how AV1-encoded bitstreams are packaged into the HEIF container format (based on ISOBMFF) to produce AVIF files. The project outlines the syntax and semantics required for AVIF compliance, including support for multiple image profiles, color depths, chroma subsampling modes, HDR/WCG, alpha channels, animation/image sequences, and various color-space/bit-depth combinations — making AVIF a versatile, modern image format suitable for both simple photos and advanced imagery needing high fidelity. The specification ensures interoperability across encoders and decoders, providing guidelines so that images created by any compliant AVIF encoder can be reliably decoded by compliant decoders. As adoption grows, AV1 AVIF plays a crucial role in promoting a royalty-free, open, high-efficiency image standard that competes with older formats such as JPEG and newer proprietary ones. -
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Laravel FFMpeg
This package provides an integration with FFmpeg for Laravel
This package provides an integration with FFmpeg for Laravel 10. Laravel's Filesystem handles the storage of the files. You can easily add a watermark using the addWatermark method. With the WatermarkFactory, you can open your watermark file from a specific disk, just like opening an audio or video file. When you discard the fromDisk method, it uses the default disk specified in the filesystems.php configuration file. -
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Transcoder
Hardware-accelerated video transcoding using Android MediaCodec APIs
Transcoder by DeepMedia is an AI-powered video-to-video speech translation engine that enables fully automated multilingual dubbing. Unlike traditional speech translation systems that rely on multi-stage pipelines, Transcoder directly translates one speaker’s video into another language while preserving facial expressions, lip-sync, and vocal identity. Designed for real-time use and production-grade pipelines, Transcoder combines advanced deep learning models with GPU acceleration to deliver high-quality translations across languages. It’s built with researchers and developers in mind, offering tools for testing, evaluating, and deploying AI-driven media localization. -
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VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
Transcode or convert files to H.264 or H.265 HEVC MKV/MP4 - FFmpeg GUI
Open source video/audio converter GUI based on FFmpeg (included) Works natively for Windows and Linux (with mono-complete installed) Batch convert audio/video collection to H.264 or H.265 HEVC AAC/MP3, etc. Transcode MKV to MP4 or MP4/M4V to MKV in 1 minute. Rotate video Resize video Extract audio from movie clip Extract specific part of video/audio file Convert various audio files to MP3 or AAC Select audio stream to encode with video Add subtitle stream Easily create conversion tasks Pause/resume encoding queue Play files Record AV streams from Internet (Record tab) FFmpeg command is exposed so FFmpeg command is fully editable 64-bit version is now default. 32 bit and XP version as separate downloads For more details on usage, please check README Short video demonstration: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10812743/103661971-a568b900-4f6f-11eb-8c11-ac92ea41944b.mp4 NOTE: Windows will warn you about security. Scan then click "Run anyway -
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Lyra
A Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression
lyra is a neural audio codec designed to deliver intelligible, natural-sounding speech at extremely low bitrates, making real-time communication viable on constrained networks. It replaces hand-engineered codecs with learned models that capture speech characteristics more efficiently and reconstruct waveforms with a neural vocoder. The system targets mobile-class hardware, balancing latency and quality so it can run in real-time on phones. Its architecture is resilient to packet loss and jitter through framing strategies and error concealment, helping conversations remain understandable under adverse conditions. The codebase includes encoder and decoder components, along with tools for data preparation and evaluation. By pushing bitrates down to just a few kilobits per second while retaining quality, lyra expands access to voice calls where bandwidth is scarce. -
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TV-Viewer is a frontend to watch and record TV. Designed for analog TV-cards working with ivtv, pvrusb2 or cx18 driver and others with a build-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. The Gui is written in Tk, so it does not rely on a special desktop environment.
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avio
Python version of ffplay with built-in AI
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The videotrans project is a set of scripts that converts a movie file in any format that mplayer understands (AVI, etc) to a DVD compatible VOB file, including all the necessary conversions. Further, an automatic DVD menu generator is provided.
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