Open Media Converter
Open Media Converter is a native Linux desktop application with a GTK 4 interface for converting video, audio, image and document formats. It orchestrates proven command-line tools so you get one consistent UI for batch workflows, presets and per-file progress tracking.
Highlights:
- Video and audio via FFmpeg (GPU acceleration, codecs, batch queue)
- Images via ImageMagick (resize, rotate, flip, quality, image-to-PDF)
- Documents via Pandoc and LibreOffice (PDF, DOCX, ODT, HTML, Markdown, EPUB)
- Batch processing with pause, resume and cancel controls
- Conversion presets plus per-file overrides
- Portable AppImage with bundled converters, or native packages with system converters
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)
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Usage
Open_Media_Converter is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running Open_Media_Converter on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Open_Media_Converter AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Open_Media_Converter
If you want to restrict what Open_Media_Converter can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Open_Media_Converter
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Open_Media_Converter AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Open_Media_Converter and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Open_Media_Converter in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Open_Media_Converter AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Open_Media_Converter AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Please consider making the Open_Media_Converter AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Open_Media_Converter if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.