Video Converter for Linux

Is There any Linux Video Converter?

I wrote about Free Video Converter for Windows last week. Today, it is time for Linux Video Converter. Are you a Linux user and looking for good one to convert your favorite video to play in your media player including iPod, iPhone, PSP, AppleTV, Mobile Phone, Zune, Palm, Xbox 360 etc? You will found it in this article.

There are only few video converters available for Linux platform. HandBrake is one of them, a free multiplatform video transcoder which available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Another one is WinFF, an open source, cross platform free video converter software available in Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, OpenSuse, PCLinuxOS and Windows. The new released one, Rudd-O Linux Video Converter.

You can see what experienced people ratings on each Linux video converter software program as well as voting for the favorite one in the following. You can also read review and share your experience in comment section:

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Linux Video Converter Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using Linux Video Converter Software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the video converter program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
HandBrake	(7 votes)  Loading ...
WinFF	(4 votes)  Loading ...
Linux Video Converter	(6 votes)  Loading ...

Voting for Most Favorite Linux Converter Program

These are the Linux Video Converter programs available on the internet today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite one? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing Linux Video Converter Software by finding out which is the most popular one. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

Linux Video Converter Reviews

You can read reviews on Linux Video Converter Software as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

HandBrake – Video Transcoder

HandBrake is a free multiplatform video transcoder which available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It is open source program released under GNU General Public License, so you can download and use it for free of charge. With HandBrake, you can transcode your movies and transfer them to a format that appropriate for your computers, media centers, and portable media players. The program allows you to convert MPEG video including DVD-Video into a MPEG-4 video file in AVI, MP4, MKV, M4V and OGM. This video transcoder is used by many people to convert DVDs into the video formats which can be viewed on iPods, iPhones and with the Mac QuickTime Player.

WinFF – Ubuntu Video Converter

Are you looking for Linux video converter? WinFF is one of them. WinFF is an open source, cross platform free video converter software (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, OpenSuse, PCLinuxOS and Windows) written in Free Pascal and Lazarus. The program is published under the GNU public license which you can download and use for free of charge. It is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. With WinFF, you can convert various video and audio formats between for Blackberry, Creative Zen, VCD, DVD, DV, IPod, Mobile Phone, Zune, Tuna-Vids, Palm, Xbox 360, PS3, QuickTime, Walkman, Nokia, Neuros OSD and more. The program also includes playback feature which allows you to play audio or video before converting.

Rudd-O Linux Video Converter

Looking for a Linux video converter? Rudd-O Linux Video Converter is one of them. The new released one. It is a simple video transcoder for Linux which makes it easy to convert your videos to several popular formats to archive or upload into video sharing communities. It is a free video converter program released under the GPL version 3. The program has straightforward user interface. At the moment, Linux video converter lets you convert videos to the following formats: YouTube (low-resolution high-quality).

The Best Alternative Video Conversion Solution for Linux Users

What is the best solution if all of these Linux video converters cannot fill your needs? This is a question you will ask when you cannot get the file format you want. You may use video editing software, but it is not a good solution. Using online video converter is the best alternative solution for most people. It is a web-based service runs on internet browser, therefore you can use it on any platform including Linux, Windows or Mac.

There are many of them available for free of charge. Here are the Top 9 Online Video Converters you can at no cost. Some tools like Zamzar, Media Convert, YouConvertIt provide you more than a video converting capability, but also allows you to convert many others file formats in several main categories including Document, Image, Audio and Archives.

I hope this article may help you. You can also submit if there any other Linux video converter program available.

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