Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 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

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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.

please share a screenshot of your settings

In handbrake I use ā€œvery fast 720P 30 fpsā€ as MP4 with ā€œweb optimizedā€ 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.

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 ā€œsimple and just worksā€ 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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