Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @nostr.build servers:
This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB.
That’s a 97.9% reduction in size!
Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture.
Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. nostr:note1xxxwl894ee3pf8zcmvf3r4axugk5wz00ne5um2fad92266ry6wjsgwe382
In Linux you could set up a watcher for a folder that will automatically convert any videos placed there with ffmpeg to make this really easy.
Love Handbrake. Essential tool.
What codec and flags did you use?
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please share a screenshot of your settings
In handbrake I use “very fast 720P 30 fps” as MP4 with “web optimized” selected. Always gives the best output with lowest data cost, imo.
I’ll share the ffmpeg settings too when I’m back to my desktop. It’s in a tiny app I did with Ai so I don’t see the settings often enough to memorize them.
Good info here!
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Just learning about Handbrake now. Thanks!!!
It's the Audacity of video. Kinda.
I’ve been using handbrake for what seems like a decade. It’s the perfect example (along with ffmpeg underneath it) of a “simple and just works” application.
No good option on Android
I'd bet that there is something out there but i don't know it off the top of my head unfortunately.
Appreciated small podcast mp3s and file downloads when I was in rural Zambia. This is thoughtful for the developing world.
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