>>115673605I use Avidemux. The devs know they need to add it but there's some other things ahead of time.
The thing is, it wouldn't make a tremendous difference for most people I think, other than cramming more quality into a small size. (I'd probably leave the files the same size.) H265 is a better video compression algorithm than H264, and from my cursory research AV1 is better than H265 and its free.
The trouble is the source for the videos to encode. I have kept on archive the original TV capture video-raws from 13 years ago. (And if memory serves, I might have released them on a thread on /co/ way back when.) So having a better method for compressing isn't going to make them look a whole lot better.
Now if I could find some really good noise filters, that might help? The video source is standard 480i from ye old cable TV.