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Ffmpeg.

The results don't suck. They're awesome.

However, the insane number of combinations of flags, the fact order of flags can change things, and the "defaults aren't best" are all issues that make it a true pain to use.

... Yet the GUIs and wrappers that exist to make it friendlier inevitably either make it slower (Handbrake's thread limitations) or don't support about half of the filters it can provide.

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Hah. Let's combine your pain and mine. I actually use FFmpeg daily in Android. Terminal, indeed.

I always felt that ffmpeg should give up on the config flags except for basic presets, and use Lua scripting to allow any deeper modification of the workflow.

Then you end up with something that has the usability of `wpa_supplicant`: confusing command line arguments _and_ strange, hard to parse input files.

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