Ahoy Mateys! Finally my PC is back from the shop and I’m ready to begin re-encoding my “loot” to a smaller footprint for Plex. I’ve decided on HEVC (10-Bit)/AAC encoding and want to use ffmpeg but I know ZERO about the command line so I’m seeking a good front-end that uses hardware acceleration (AMD GPU), does batch processing, allows video dimension & aspect control and audio normalization. I’ve tried several and it appears only ffBatch comes close & provides good encode times. I would appreciate any input if anyone knows of any other free, good ffmpeg front-ends with the features I listed. Thanks!
Tdarr is great if you are comfortable setting up a Docker environment. It is a great way to reprocess your whole library.
A good GUI alternative is Handbrake. It uses a different library than ffmpeg but can do the same stuff. One thing about Handbrake to remember is that it is centered around video encoding. So while ffmpeg can process your audio streams without touching the video stream, Handbrake will reencode video every time.
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I think you might be confused because ffmpeg is the project and also the name of the executable, the library is libavcodec but it’s still ffmpeg. See here.