Is there an easy to use video encoder?

Question

I would like to know whether is there an all-in-one application to encode crop resize and mux video files (something like MeGui for windows) for ubuntu.

I don't feel like study too hard to learn how to use ffmpeg

Answer 1

The reason ffmpeg, mencoder, et al still exist (and are still so popular) is because if you do learn them, you get the best results. I'm not going to bash on about that but if you find you're not getting good results, you might want to learn a little bit and see if that improves things.

Anyway. Handbrake is my go-to transcoer. It's just a GUI for various encoders and it "just works" 99% of the time. The best thing I find over applications like Transmageddon (and a billion other one-click transcoders) is you can actually tweak things pretty well, queue them up and leave everything going over night.

• How do I install Handbrake?

Answer 2

Avidemux is the closest thing Ubuntu has in terms of a simple video-editor/muxer. For more full blown non-linear editing tasks there is also kdenlive and Cinelerra.