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by dperfect 3467 days ago
HandBrake offers a really nice GUI for many one-off transcoding tasks. If you're looking to automate transcoding tasks with some scripting, handbrake-cli (or ffmpeg directly) are very powerful, albeit overwhelming at times.

For something in the middle - offering both convenience and scriptability - I recommend video_transcoding[1] (uses handbrake-cli and ffmpeg under the covers). It's a really handy set of command-line tools that eliminate a lot of the guesswork and frustration.

[1] https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding