Selene Media Encoder: A Simple Audio Video Converter for Linux

In these times where multimedia is the daily life of users, it is important to have a good audio video converter for Linux. There are several tools available in this area, but in particular I have always used Selene Media Encoder, which is a fairly veteran tool that gives us the ability to convert from various formats to others.

In the past, there has been talk here on the blog about various tools to convert videos, so if you are interested in knowing other alternatives you can do it from here..

What is Selene Media Encoder?

Selene Media Encoder is a audio video converter for Linux, written in Vala by Tony George, which has more than five years of accumulated development. The tool allows us to convert files to OGG / OGV / MKV / MP4 / WEBM / OPUS / AAC / FLAC / MP3 / WAV formats.

This powerful tool has a simple and intuitive interface, which allows us to convert our audios and videos easily.

In the same way, this converter is compatible with the most popular formats and can also be run through the console where you can perform automated conversions. It is this last functionality that brings the greatest benefit from this tool to its users, since it allows creating scripts that allow the conversion of multimedia automatically and fulfilling the desired criteria.

Selene Media Encoder Features

• Simple and intuitive interface.
• Convert videos to MKV / MP4 / OGV / WEBM formats.
• Convert audios to MP3 / AAC / OGG / OPUS / FLAC / WAV formats.
• Allows you to pause and resume the conversion stack.
• It can be run in the background.
• Computer shutdown after converting media can be automated
• Compatible with Bash scripts that control the conversion process.
• Excellent command line interface for automatic multimedia conversion.
• Easy installation.
• Free and open source software.

How to install Selene Media Encoder?

The installation of this audio and video converter for Linux is quite simple, especially if you are an Ubuntu user or derivatives. Here are the steps you must take to install Selene Media Encoder.

Install Selene Media Encoder on Ubuntu and derivatives

Ubuntu users must add the corresponding ppa and install the tool

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install selene

Install Selene Media Encoder on Arch Linux and derivatives

We can install Selene on Arch Linux and derivatives using yaourt:

yaourt -S selene-media-encoder

Install Selene Media Encoder on other distros

Users of other distros can make use of the tool's .run, either for 32 bit or 64 bit, you can download the corresponding file below:

• selene-latest-i386.run (32-bit)
• selene-latest-amd64.run (64-bit)

After it has been downloaded, we must open a terminal, go to the folder where we have downloaded the .run and execute it in the following way:

sh ./selene-latest-i386.run  #32-bit
sh ./selene-latest-amd64.run  #64-bit

Some distros you must install the dependencies listed below:

Required: libgtk-3 libgee2 libjson-glib rsync realpath libav-tools mediainfo
Optional: vorbis-tools, opus-tools, vpx-tools, x264, lame, mkvtoolnix, ffmpeg2theora, gpac, sox 

With all this information we hope you can enjoy my favorite tool to convert audios and videos on Linux. It is worth noting that this tool was updated in recent days, so this is a veteran application but constantly updated.