Linux Video Converter

There are quite a bit of Linux Video Converter programs, dedicated all to different needs, depending of what you might need done. Here are some of the most popular linux video converters, encoders and transcoders found on the internet.

DeVeDe is a multi-platform linux application to convert video files and create DVDs, suitable for home players, from any of the video file extensions supported by MPlayer. The gig advantage over other utilities is that in only needs Mplayer (Linux Media Player), Mencoder, DVDAuthor, MKisofs. It's dependencies are really small. Also available for other platforms, is highly popular.

XCFA is a French developed software (no word if it's going to be translated to english anytime soon), although it's interface is a bit tricky to master it is a useful tool allows you to convert video files, normalize, split, rip CDs and DVDs.

MakeMKV is a one-click solution to convert DVD, Blu-ray and AVCHD discs into MKV. It converts the video clips from propietary disk 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.

HandBrake is a multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder and encoder. Supports any DVD-like source, VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB and .TS files, Blu-ray source, Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs: File format: MP4, MKV, Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding), Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks), Switchable or burned in subtitles and much more.

Mencoder is related to the video player for Linux, Mencoder is a Linux Video Converter that supports several input video formats and codecs. Command line tools but several frontend/GUIs available like SMPlayer available.

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter and transcoder that uses ffmpeg to convert between popular desktop formats like MPEG, AVI, WMV, FLV and commonly used mobile phone formats like AMR and 3GP video, and iPod/iPhone compatible MP4 video is also supported. An integrated Youtube downloader. This is one of the most popular Linux Video Converter applications.