we could be doing a lot better job though
Unlike centralized social media your videos aren't automatically optimized on Nostr. Her are some good tools to compress your videos for smaller size and better streaming before upload.
🔹Android
FFshare - Open source, ffmpeg based
https://github.com/caydey/ffshare
Proton - Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arthur.hritik.proton.video.compressor
🔹Desktop - both are available for Linux, Mac & Windows.
Handbrake
FFmpeg
Discussion
True. I see a lot of 1 minute videos that are triple digit MB in size. A lot can easily be compressed by a factor of ten.
I don’t know about videos but it would be nice if we converted image files into JPEG XL, because it has inherited a party trick from FLIF where you only need to i.e. download half of the file to have half of the resolution.
Should save on bandwidth and file storage, since you don’t need redundant tumbnails and alternative resolution files.