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This looks like something that I would find extremely cool if I had any idea what it was.
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?
Read my other reply
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.
In the days of DVDs, Blockbusters and Netflix sending out DVDs, this was mostly used to rip DVDs.