Best low-thershold scriptable h.264 encoder

[ThePhysicist]

Hello,

I have a nephew who is wants the be the #1 minecraft youtuber of all time! In that regard, we spend the 25. dec. putting together his new stationary with a nice mix of new and pilfered parts! Now, I'm new to video recording and encoding, so I spent the following two days understanding the demands of game recording and subsequent post-processing. Now, he only has 8 GB of memory, and recording for 10 minutes will easily exceed that, so I figured we'd encode it with h.264 to make it easier to work with (also, he is using windows movie maker, which doesn't handle the large file sizes). This takes a lot of time after he is done recording though.

So I thought to automate the process. The recording tool can spit out 5 minutes of video at a time, and I thought to write a small code, utilizing an existing h.264 encoder to monitor the output folder for the files. When they appear, I want to put it in a "to-be-encoded" queue, and then start the encoding in a process using all but one core of his CPU, one job at a time. Then spit them out in a new folder and perhaps move the big file to a storage location (so it doesn't clutter up the SSD).
(Side note: He has two GPU's, the one on his main board seems to take care of the recording process. This leaves the CPU relatively free to do encoding work .)

Now, to do this, I'd ideally like to find an encoder which can work with a config file. I've used "ImagesToVideo" to make 3D movies for computational fluid dynamics in C#, and have a framework ready to go. However, I'm a bit lost as to what encoder to use.

I've had a look at videolans h.264, but I couldn't immediately figure out how to work with it. And it looks too much like a core engine where I would have to handle quite detailed arguments. I then looked at ffmpeg, which looks better, but it is quite command line based. Also, it looks like I have to specify a lot about the input format, which I'd hoped the tool could figure out itself.

And this is where I'm at... I'm a bit short on insight into encoders, and would really appreciate any advice/reccomendation! Like... Should I look into h.265?

[Baldrick]

Please don't cross post. The video sections works fine. And you do not sound like a newbie...

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