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ffmpeg
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Cross-platform
Works on Linux, OS X and Windows.
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Steep learning curve
Unless you use a front-end (that has reduced functionality), ffmpeg might be intimidating at first.
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Powerful
In addition to having great flexibility over demuxer, decoder, processer, encoder, muxer choice and settings, ffmpeg can crop, stream, merge audio and video from different sources and perform many other tasks.
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Multiple graphical front-ends
There are multiple GUI implementations of ffmpeg for ease of use. Among the most commonly used WinFF (Windows, Linux), Avanti (Windows) and Miro (cross-platform) are worth taking a look at.
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Free and open source
Licensed under LGPL.
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Screen capture
You can use ffmpeg to record your desktop along with audio.
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Extensive list of formats supported
Among the more common formats ffmpeg can handle are h.264, HEVC(h.265), mp3, AAC, mpeg-4, wmv3, ProRes, QuickTime, SWF, Speex, FLAC, VP9 and many more. To get a full list in terminal type: ffmpeg-formats
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Excellent streaming support
Because ffmpeg allows transcoding on the fly and supports multiple streaming protocols such as rtmp, rtsp, http, ftp, hls, you can use it to stream to services such as twitch.tv or set up your own streaming solution. You can use both local realtime recordings or another stream as a source, transcode it if necessary, and output it to a different stream. ffmpeg -i rtmp://server/live/originalStream -c:a copy -c:v libx264 -vpre slow -f flv rtmp://server/live/h264Stream
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Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD
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XMedia Recode
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Filters
Crop, resolution, denoise, blur, sharpness, rotate, smart blur, etc. loudness normalization, volume correction, etc.
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Bitrate control modes
VBR, 2-pass VBR, CQP, ICQ/LA-ICQ, etc.
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Hardware acceleration
Intel Quick Sync, NVENC/cuda, AMD.
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Many codec types
H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, etc. AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC V2, opus, vorbis, flac, ape, etc.
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FormatFactory
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Easy to use GUI
Uncluttered, intuitive interface.
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Good variety of formats and media types supported
In addition to DVDs, BluRays, CDs and disk images, FormatFactory can handle mp4, 3gp, mpg, avi, wmv, flv, swf, mp3, wma, amr, ogg, aac, wav, jpg, bmp, png, tif, ico, gif and tga.
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Free
Proprietary code that you can use in whatever way you want, even for commerce.
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Supports batch converting
You can convert multiple files at a time.
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Lightweight
It is designed to convert, no added bloat.
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Windows
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VLC
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Free, open source, and cross-platform
VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.
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Not really meant to be a music player
VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.
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Simple to setup and use
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
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Very versatile and easy to use
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Absence of personalization
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
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Doesn't require additional codecs
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
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Tons of advanced settings
Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.
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Doesn't manage your music library for you
You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.
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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven
VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.
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Surprisingly Lightest on Resources
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)
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Includes Blu-Ray playback support
Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.
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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface
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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package
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Large amount of extensions
VLC has a large amount of extensions.
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Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, AppleTV
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GStreamer
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Powerful
In addition to having great flexibility over demuxer, decoder, processer, encoder, muxer choice and settings, GStreamer can clip, crop, stream, extract frames, merge audio and video from different sources and perform many other tasks.
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Extendable
You can dynamically load plugins and implement different libraries to extend functionality.
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Excellent debugger
GStreamer can give you detailed information about the pipeline and each individual process it's running.
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Excellent variety of formats
Among the more common formats GStreamer can handle are h.264, HEVC(h.265), mp3, AAC, mpeg-4, wmv3, ProRes, QuickTime, SWF, Speex, FLAC, VP9 and it can also be extended with other libraries to support different formats.
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Free and open-source
Licensed under LGPL.
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Cross-platform
Available on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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Many features
It can do anything.
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Easy to completely nuke an unrelated hard disk by accident
It is a cli app and there are no safety features to prevent a complete data loss if the user adds a wrong syntax.
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Ported to almost any OS
There exist ports for Windows, Mac and even Android.
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License:
GNU GPLv3+
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macOS, Linux, *BSD, Unix
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VLC
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It can also convert videos
It can RIP and convert videos natively(including DVD video).
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Plain ugly interface
Although it can be skinned, the basic interface is truly outdated in appearance.
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It can play most formats, and many other players cant
It has internal codecs, meaning that even if other players can't play your movie, VLC probably can.
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Final Cut Pro X
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GPU utilization
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You need lots of plugins
For example tracking is something Final Cut can't do. Only with a plugin which costs (example) around 100$. As well as for advanced colour correction you have get a third-party plugin.
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Powerful media organization
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Important compatibility and format issues
Breaks compatibility with previous versions of FCP and does not support industry standards such as EDL, OMF, AAF. You can export to their version of XML and use third-party tools for a workaround (with limited success).
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Resolution independence
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Works only on OS X
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Real-time graphics and effects
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Color grading is unfamiliar and nonprofessional
Especially compared to Premiere's Lumetri Color Panel in 2015 cc.
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64-bit architecture
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Native format support
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Full high-quality pro-res support
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Integration with Motion
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Multicam editing
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ColorSync-managed color pipeline
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KDENlive
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Open Source
Kdenlive is licensed under GPLv2, and built on top of other open source projects like FFmpeg.
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It's laggy and freezes, with some chance of crashing
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Works great as an audio editor
Audio is edited in the same way as video, which makes it one of the best audio editors.
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Timeline cursor is not working
Timeline cursor is not working well on Kubuntu, very difficult to use it. You have to switch all the time between project monitor and clip monitor to get it work.
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Surpisingly complete
Although this editor is not up with the top of the professional pack of editors, it certainly packs a powerful punch, and should provide enough features for amateur montages, ranging from alpha manipulation, to multiple audio and video live track editing.
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Dose not work well in Windows
They do not support windows well like other distribution. You will face a lot of problems.
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Its great for learn the basics of video-editing
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No hardware acceleration
If you don't have a CPU that's good for video encoding, the render time can be quite bad.
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Subtitles included
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Does not have good distribution channel
You have to go to their website to get newest version, does not auto update via package manager.
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Doesn't support multi frame-rate video editing
When you choose the mixed frame rate option, your video with 60 fps will be broken (slow down and trimmed). (This con might be just misunderstanding of how to do video editing and production from the user who typed in).
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Wundershare Video Converter Ultimate
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No pass thru options when converting. No lossless options for audio for video conversions
There is no "pass thru" option when doing conversions, also there is no lossless option for audio when working in the video or HD video profile categories. Oddly enough there are lossless conversion options if you use the audio category, but this will output a separate file from the video. Depending on the video container you use and it's capabilities, users can do separate conversions and then mux the lossless audio and video output files later with other 3rd party applications if lossless quality is that important. In that case, this application would not be as convenient compared to other software, while it can do 1:1 copies, other software are more dedicated to this purpose and have more options in this regard.
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High quality conversions for minimum - no effort
Default profile options generally have most fields filled with "smart fit" option by default. This is essentially mirroring the source media as closely as possible, so you get a high-quality conversion with a mild (probably not noticeable) loss in quality. Custom profiles can be made. There seems to be no lossless or pass-thru options for generic video or hd video profiles though.
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License for Mac and Windows require separate purchases
If you buy one, you can purchase a license for the other OS at a discount, but still, it'd be nice to purchase one license for both.
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Easy high quality conversions
By default, conversions use "smart fit" for almost all options. This amounts to nearly lossless conversions, or more accurately, high-quality for minimum effort lossy copies. By default, audio is compressed to lossy AAC format. Users can create custom profiles if so desired.
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Have experienced issues with buggy seeking of timeline on HD MKV output files
Will update with more info as time goes on, if other ripped media has this problem or if an update fixes this.
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Great profile categories
Video Converter Ultimate has great categories of profiles, some are generic video formats, generic audio formats, device specific formats including some virtual reality headsets which I have not seen before in other software, formats for editing in popular video editors, generic hd video formats, and for sharing over the web or for popular video sharing websites.
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Web Browser addons/extensions to make downloading videos from the web easy
Browsers supported on the Mac are Firefox, Google Chrome & Safari.
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Single purchase/ lifetime license options
Buy it once and you're done. They do have an annual license at $39.95 / Year and a Family lifetime license (2-5 computers) for $118.00. The $59.95 lifetime single license is a good deal if you think you'll use the software extensively beyond two-three years.
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Can copy and burn DVD media
It can copy to formats including ISO, TS/DVD Folder and .dvdmedia.
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Freemake Video Converter
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Installer includes adware
MyPCBackup option is included during install, but you can skip it.
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Uses acceleration technologies to speed up conversions
CUDA and DXVA specifically.
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Video and Audio Out of Sync
Cause sync messed up.
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Some video format not supported
Doesn’t Support MKV Format.
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The free version adds it's own branding to videos
The Freemake Video Converter logo is watermarked on the video and also adds a splash screen to the start and ending of a video. Any IAP will remove the branding at $20 for a one-time fee or a $9 monthly subscription. Look under menu > help to find the IAP options and to purchase if you are so inclined.
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Expensive considering IAPs
Currently there are three in app purchase ( IAP) options. All three offer a choice to subscribe monthly at $9 /mo or a one-time unlimited purchase at $19. All IAPs remove the freemake branding and splash screen at beginning end of outputted videos, but the other features that are unlocked differ. Remove branding features: faster video conversion; automatic video backup; exclusive dvd menus; black bars removal. Gold pack features: faster video conversion: black bars removal; video projects auto-save; videos branding removed. Subtitles pack: add subtitles to movies; change subtitles font; edit subtitles size; remove freemake branding. So, if you wanted ALL features of the app and opt for single pay rather than the subscription model, you would need to pony up $60. Look under "help" to find the IAP options and to purchase if you are so inclined.
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No queue feature
Once you hit convert, you can't work on something else, you have to wait for the conversion to finish before the software is available to use again.
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