ffmprovisr VS ffmpeg-compare

The Handbrake suggestion is a good one if your only interest is transcoding ... which barely scratches the breadth of what ffmpeg as a tool can do.

Try: https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

for a 'better' ffmpeg CLI documentation, your mileage may vary, it's task and example focused.

Try: https://github.com/topics/ffmpeg-gui

for 66 variations on a GUI for ffmpeg of which I have no comment, I'm an old school CLI user through and through.

I wonder if you’ve seen this. And what about that you found useful and/or not useful.

ffmprovisr https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

just put whatever you need in ffmpeg call in the loop i posted. it's all up to you, what encoder to use, what bitrate or CFR value, what resolution. i think you'll find this site helpful in getting what you want -> https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/ you'll find a shitload of examples there, that you can modify to suit your use case.

Netflix’s vmaf AI based comparison engine is in ffmpeg now by default I think. You can take some snippets of your video and run some compressions and compare them to the original to see how they compare. I threw together a script a few years ago to automate that process a bit https://github.com/Torpus/ffmpeg-compare It’s pretty old so not sure it still works but could give you some ideas on how to implement something similar.

Use vmaf to compare some sample conversions and see what works best for you size and quality wise. I put together a simple script that does this a while back you could probably repurpose or use if it still works. https://github.com/Torpus/ffmpeg-compare