As expected, the term and topic of *#Encoding* is a pretty fractal, rabbit shaped hole.
#EncodingWTF
Tommi 馃く
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So I have hundreds of videos of ~1 minute recorded from my phone ~10 years ago, and they generally don鈥檛 have that great compression, nor they are stored in a modern and advanced video format.
For archiving purposes, I want to take advantage of my workstation鈥檚 mighty GPU to process them so that the quality is approximately the same, but the file size would be strongly reduced.
Nevertheless, compressing videos is terribly hard, and way more complex than compressing pictures, so I wouldn鈥檛 really know how to do this, what format to use, what codec, what bitrate, what parameters to keep an eye on, etc.
I don鈥檛 care if the compression takes a lot of time, I just want smaller but good looking videos.
Any tips? (Links to guides and tutorials are ok too)
Also, unfortunately I am forced to use Windows for this (don鈥檛 ask me why 馃珷), but I know nothing about Windows because I hate it. Practical software suggestions are very much welcome, too!
#ffmpeg #help#askFedi #codec#AVI#H265#H264 #movie #video #videoCompression #compression #encoding#HandBrake #heif #heic #avif #mp4 #mkv#Wondows
So I have hundreds of videos of ~1 minute recorded from my phone ~10 years ago, and they generally don鈥檛 have that great compression, nor they are stored in a modern and advanced video format.
For archiving purposes, I want to take advantage of my workstation鈥檚 mighty GPU to process them so that the quality is approximately the same, but the file size would be strongly reduced.
Nevertheless, compressing videos is terribly hard, and way more complex than compressing pictures, so I wouldn鈥檛 really know how to do this, what format to use, what codec, what bitrate, what parameters to keep an eye on, etc.
I don鈥檛 care if the compression takes a lot of time, I just want smaller but good looking videos.
Any tips? (Links to guides and tutorials are ok too)
Also, unfortunately I am forced to use Windows for this (don鈥檛 ask me why 馃珷), but I know nothing about Windows because I hate it. Practical software suggestions are very much welcome, too!
#ffmpeg #help#askFedi #codec#AVI#H265#H264 #movie #video #videoCompression #compression #encoding#HandBrake #heif #heic #avif #mp4 #mkv#Wondows
@doboprobodyne @christianp
awesome!
In the long run it might also make the online transcoding tools with the "Start now" [to download malware]-button obsolete.
Funnily I talked about this [soon solved] problem with my funder @clemensg by phone today.
#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter
just et. al. too
please save us from uploading duplicate files or journalists from writing alt twice with clientside content-id comparison.
@sl007 @christianp @clemensg
> Client side content-id comparison.
That's a neat idea!
#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter
@christianp
Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
#mastodon#webVideo #HLS #transcoding #video #decentralization#edgeComputing#webGL#W3C #activitypub#AI #ffmpeg #selfhosted #degoogle #mathstodon
@doboprobodyne @christianp
awesome!
In the long run it might also make the online transcoding tools with the "Start now" [to download malware]-button obsolete.
Funnily I talked about this [soon solved] problem with my funder @clemensg by phone today.
#transcoding #encoding #video #browser #ffmpeg #webassembly #clientside #videoconverter
just et. al. too
please save us from uploading duplicate files or journalists from writing alt twice with clientside content-id comparison.