HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Everyone can use HandBrake to make videos for free.
HandBrake takes videos you already have and makes new ones that work on your mobile phone, tablet, TV media player, game console, computer, or web browser—nearly anything that supports modern video formats.
HandBrake works with most common video files and formats, including ones created by consumer and professional video cameras, mobile devices such as phones and tablets, game and computer screen recordings, and DVD and Blu-ray discs. HandBrake leverages tools such as FFmpeg libavcodec and libavformat libraries, x264, x265, and svt-av1 to create new MP4, MKV, or WebM video files from these
https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/introduction/about.htmlSources
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Audio/Video Applications
XMedia Recode 3.5.9.6
XMedia Recode can convert almost all known audio and video formats.
https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/
MakeMKV 1.17.6 beta
New beta key available, valid until end of June 2024.
MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called “transcoder”. It converts the video clips from proprietary (and usually encrypted) disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters. There are many players that can play MKV files nearly on all platforms, and there are tools to convert MKV files to many formats, including DVD and Blu-ray discs.
https://www.makemkv.com
tinyMediaManager v5.0.5
tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server. Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and macOS (and possible more OS).
https://www.tinymediamanager.org
XMedia Recode 3.5.9.5
XMedia Recode can convert almost all known audio and video formats.
https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/
MKVToolNix 84.0 “Sleeper”
MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
https://mkvtoolnix.download/index.html
MediaInfo 24.04
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
tinyMediaManager v5.0.4
tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server. Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and macOS (and possible more OS).
https://www.tinymediamanager.org
Kodi 21 “Omega”
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, tvOS and Android. It is designed around a “10-foot user interface” for use with televisions and remote controls.
Users can play and view most videos, music, podcasts, games and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
https://kodi.tv
MediaInfo 24.03
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo