[johnvanommen]

> I click on the file and "open with handbrake" and press "convert". I can't imagine how anything night be faster.

I use both. One thing I prefer about ffmpeg is that I prefer it when I'm being a control freak.

Basically, if I'm encoding a lot of videos, I will sometimes fail to notice that some box has been ticked in Handbrake, that will screw up my encode. In particular, Handbrake always defaults to resizing my videos, 100% of the time, and I always have to turn that off manually. If I fail to do that, it will resize my videos and I'll end up wasting an hour doing encodes, or 3-4 hours if I'm using CPU instead of GPU.