Are you sure? I would expect AMD to have their own download & install instructions that could be used on any distro

Oh you don’t have to do anything like that for everything else, because it is just in the kernel and in mesa… This “pro” driver comes with some custom stuff like apparently their proprietary encoders, but I read multiple times that it has just terrible performance for everything else so don’t bother…

By rips, do you mean your source media is already in a container, like a .mkv or .mp4 file?

yes mkv files

you might take a look at MVKToolNix

I will :)

HandBrake supports AMD VCN hardware video encoding

yes, but that is not viable as the amdgpu-pro drivers are only available on LTS releases and on a few selected distros

You haven’t said what source material you’re encoding

Mostly BluRay rips, so movies and TV-Shows

Are you aware of Vulkan Video?

I actually was not. Is it any good? But Handbrake does not support that either, does it?

you might consider investing some time in learning ffmpeg commands.

I am, but for anything involving multiple audio and subtitle streams and stream selection in general it is not an option for me…

Never heard of it, but it looks very intimidating 😅

With handling all the subtitles and audio streams I really prefer a GUI especially since it is not a one size fits all with the files I am dealing with