Free Video Software for Linux

MediaInfo is a multi-platform and open source application that provides users with both a command-line program and a graphical user interface for visualizing various characteristics of audio and video files. It displays detailed information about the...

QMPlay2 is an open source and multi-platform software project that allows you to play all sorts of video files from the comfort of your Linux, Windows or Mac desktop. It is backed by the amazing and powerful FFmpeg multimedia framework and features an...

FxMovieManager is an open source twin-panel file manager that features movie thumbnail generator and a playlist. It has been designed to act as a simple GUI front-end for the MPlayer command-line software, helping users to better organize their video...

VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC...

From the creator of divxenc and xvidenc, we are happy to introduce the h264enc project, which provides an advanced and open source shell script for encoding video files or DVDs to the H.264 format. It is an open source command-line script that provides...

Popcorn Time is an open source and multi-platform software project that has been designed from the ground up to provide users with a next-gen, torrent-based free video streaming application that allows anyone to easily watch their favorite movies and TV...

Plex Media Server is a powerful application that will help you to manage and stream media files stored on your computer to various mobile devices and smart TVs, across a local network or over the Internet. The application can be downloaded for Chromcast,...

MKV Extractor Qt (formerly MKV Extractor GUI) is an open source and freely distributed application that allows anyone to effortlessly extract or rip files contained in a Matroska (MKV) file. Matroska files can be rebuild Key features include the ability...

x264 is an open source and freely distributed command-line software that provides a capable H.264 and MPEG-4 AVC encoder tool for most GNU/Linux operating systems. The project is distributed as part of the VideoLAN project, which develops the powerful VLC...

GNOME MPlayer is an open source application designed from the ground up to act as an easy-to-use and minimalistic GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the well known MPlayer command-line software.Features at a glanceThe application supports...