Topic: video toolbox

Constrict GUI with three video files queued for compression, showing 10MB target size setting, automatic framerate selection, and H.264 encoding options.

New App to Compress Video to Target File Sizes on Ubuntu

New Python video compressor Constrict uses FFmpeg to compress videos to target file sizes on Ubuntu. Simple GTK4 GUI now available on Flathub.

17 July 2025
HandBrake app logo on a colourful background

HandBrake 1.9 Brings Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoding

A major new update to the powerful open source video converter HandBrake is available. In the 6 months (give or take) since the HandBrake 1.8 release arrived with its GTK4 (but not libadwaita) GUI in […]

1 December 2024
HandBrake app logo on a colourful background

HandBrake 1.8 Released with GTK4 UI, FFV1 Encoder + More

The popular, powerful, and cross-platform video converter HandBrake recently put out a new version with a notable improvement. HandBrake 1.8.0 now uses GTK 4 for the user interface, dropping GTK 3 entirely. This toolkit uplift […]

9 June 2024
a screenshot of video trimmer 0.7.0

‘Video Trimmer’ GTK App Adds Dark Mode, New Encode Option

'Video Trimmer' is a small, supremely-focused editing too for cutting down video clips. It just got a new release with a few new features – details inside.

8 December 2021

Compare Multiple Videos/Images on Linux with This New GTK App

Identity is a GTK Linux app that lets you compare multiple versions of a video and image file in the same window, and easily switch between them.

1 October 2020
video trimmer flatpak app

Trim Video Clips on Linux Faster with This New App

Video Trimmer is an open source video trimming app for Linux desktops. Built in GTK the app has an simple UI and is fast. Learn more in this post.

6 July 2020
vidcutter 3.0

Open-Source Video Trimmer App VidCutter Sees Big Update

A big update to VidCutter, an open-source video trim, split and merge app, is available to download. VidCutter is a cross-platform Qt5 app for quick video trimming/splitting and merging video clips without the need to re-encode. The app is powered […]

10 May 2017