It basically converts videos between formats, standards of compression, encoders, subtitles, dimensions… It’s pretty useful for trimming the size of a video to fit a particular medium.
HandBrake’s backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as “filters”). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video’s audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).
It basically converts videos between formats, standards of compression, encoders, subtitles, dimensions… It’s pretty useful for trimming the size of a video to fit a particular medium.
What is the benefit to using this as opposed to just straight ffmpeg?
As far as I know it is just an ffmpeg wrapper
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/276662/HandBrake-1-8-Video-Transcoder-Adds-GTK4-Port-on-Linux-FFmpeg/comment/2430596#entry-comment-2430596
Plus, do you really want to learn all the flags?
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So you are an oxygen to carbon dioxide converter? Because the answer is yes but I am guessing this is not a very complete answer for what you are.
He told you what it was. It is much more than a front-end for FFMPEG.
Read my other reply
so it’s a GUI for ffmpeg?
Kinda.