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No offense but as I mentioned previously, I downloaded handbrake and it did not work because it does not function like those websites.
The command line is not "scary", it just requires specialized knowledge. If I'm presented with a GUI I don't need any specialized knowledge, I just look at the available options and click the ones I need. In the command line I'm not presented with a fuckin thing except a black box and text field, and when I spend my time searching the web for commands and then type them in, they return a generic error with no diagnostic information and I waste hours trying to figure it out.
I'm telling you this is not for lack of trying. Im not helpless, I literally just don't have time to acquire this breadth of specialty knowledge. I already have multiple jobs. When I need plumbing work, I don't spend 40 hours learning to become a half-assed plumber and cross my fingers that I don't fuck it up and destroy my house, I hire a specialist who knows how to do it right and I spend my time doing my profession to make back the money that I paid them.
I'm simply not wasting my time anymore chasing this stuff that people that lack self-awareness repeatedly declare is "easy".