ANY = adware galore

Handbrake is the best encoder and is used by almost everyone on Planet Earth. It has preset and its very easy to use.

Got meh? Works for me. Simple and easy. Not everyone wanna go through tons of settings to do some simple conversion.

I used to encode video x264 with just CLI + Avisynth script,
self tuned command

Another nice GUI is MeGUI, which has a lot of preset setting that is noob-proof. those like to use over complicated setting are mostly concerned about the video quality of final output.

Anyway you guys seems drifting off topic already
To sums up, almost-fully hardware accelerated encoder produce lower quality video. The GPU accelerated encoder are mostly gimmick because they lacking a lot of options that will improve the video quality.
If anyone wants to high quality output just use handbrake, or any GUI with X264 or X265.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Dec 30 2014, 11:49 AM

Probably you paid the ANY converter or got it adfree or whatever. Else it will be adware galore.

You can try Handbrake. No setting. Just select for iPad/iPhone/Android etc and it'll convert straight without any setting changes.