[marcosdumay]

Handbrake offers you literally a GUI over ffmpeg. And sane defaults, setting ffmpeg gets overwhelming fast.

And also some nice queue management, a bit better than what you'd get from shell scripting.

The downside is that it's a GUI.

[ourcat]

Re: GUI 'downside' - They mention a 'JSON API' to interact with libhb, though I have yet to find it in the docs.

[cripblip]

A cli is available as a separate app