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. View quoted note →

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nobody 1 year ago
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.
Good info here!
Guy Swann's avatar Guy Swann
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. View quoted note →
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Guy Swann's avatar Guy Swann
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. View quoted note →
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image # Handbrake Video Encoder Handbrake is the goto open-source program for ripping DVDs and re-encoding videos in Linux. Some of the things you can do with Handbrake: - Rip a DVD disc to a single movie file. - Re-Encode videos to other formats (such as encoding them into an h264 format so they will instantly stream from within Telegram without having to download the entire file first.) - Resize video - Crop video (get rid of black edges or watermarks) Here is a web-page explaining [how to rip DVDs in Linux using Handbrake](https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-handbrake-linux-rip-dvd/) [⚡️ Follow Freedom Tech](https://nostr.at/npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l) #Handbrake #VideoEncoder #DVDRipper #Linux #FreedomTech #h264
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Cell phones create HUGE video files. Every year or so I copy my new phone videos to a hard drive and then use the "find" command in Linux to find .mp4 and .mov files, execute ffmpeg on them, outputing them to an .m4v files do I know wich ones are the new files. Note: .m4v = Apple's own extension for .mp4 because Apple refuses to get along with the rest of the world. It's the same file format. You can rename them all to .mp4 once you're done.
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.
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.
would be great, if there was a mobile app, that does this for you.. seems like it'd be useful for anyone recording videos..