ffmprovisr VS ArchiveBox

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.

it doesn't show in the Screenshot in the article, but ArchiveBox in Aug 2020 implemented the "readability article text extractor", see description in the release notes: https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/releases/tag/v0.4.14 and the module that does the work https://github.com/pirate/readability-extractor

By only extracting text and article images you could go deep into an archive. If you skip images, much more so