Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to x264

Product categories

Audio Converter Audio Player File Converter Live Streaming Media Player Media Players And Streaming Platforms Product Presentation Tool Video Video Converter Video Platform Webrtc

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to x264 are FLAC, gstreamer, and VLC Media Player. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

FLAC Landing Page
1

FLAC

A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio Player #Product Presentation #Media Player 6 social mentions
gstreamer Landing Page
2

gstreamer

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Tool #Video Platform 14 social mentions
VLC Media Player Landing Page
3

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Media Player #Video Player #Audio Player 3 social mentions
Ant Media Server Landing Page
4

Ant Media Server

Scalable, Ultra Low Latency & Adaptive WebRTC Streaming Ant Media Server provides Scalable Ultra-low latency (0.5 seconds) Adaptive Live Streaming with WebRTC. It supports RTMP, RTSP, Zixi, WebRTC, Adaptive Bitrate, HLS and MP4 recording.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $99.0 / Monthly (Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming - Adaptive Bitrate - Cluster)
#Live Streaming #Video Streaming #Webrtc 45 social mentions
MistServer Landing Page
5

MistServer

MistServer is a lightweight, open-source multistandard multimedia server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Tool #Video Platform 1 social mentions
Voukoder Landing Page
6

Voukoder

Use the best encoders available in Adobe Premiere CC!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 22 social mentions
HandBrake Landing Page
7

HandBrake

HandBrake allows users to easily convert video files into a wide variety of different formats.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 568 social mentions
Lidarr Landing Page
8

Lidarr

Lidarr is a music collection manager for downloading and organizing music libraries.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music Downloader #Audio Player #Communication 21 social mentions
Opus Interactive Audio Codec Landing Page
9

Opus Interactive Audio Codec

Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio Player #Media Player #Product Presentation 11 social mentions
Mediasoup Landing Page
10

Mediasoup

Mediasoup is a tool that is related to media streaming provides you rich scalability and performance with its robust selective forwarding unit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Video 9 social mentions
Jellyfin Landing Page
11

Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a personal media server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Media And Entertainment #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Media Player 251 social mentions
Emby Landing Page
12

Emby

media server for personal streaming movies tv music photos in mobile app or browser for all devices android iOS windows phone appletv androidtv smarttv and dlna.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Media Player #Media Players And Streaming Platforms 58 social mentions