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Shrinking A Video File (lazysoci.al)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a DVD hard copy, but no DVD player. Anyway, I found the DVD online and downloaded it, only problem is it's a 7GB mkv. Is there a method to shrink it down by around 6GB?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it's in an uncompressed encode you could trancode it to HEVC or AV1, which should cut the size by 1/3. Though some older phone might not be able to play AV1.

Alternativly you could convert it to a lower resolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, is there an app you would recommend to do it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I personally use ffmpeg on the command line, but I think there are some apps that add an UI for easier use.

Plex media server can also do some pre-set conversions. Either way you probably want to do that on a computer, it take a couple of hours to convert a movie even on my i9 CPU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'll leave it running over night 😭

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would recommend FFShare, it is free and open source, but not available on google play store.

With h.265 and 480p, you should be able to shrink the video file by quite a lot. You need to set these settings first before selecting a file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

this looks awesome thx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you. I'll give it a go

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Might be easier/faster to find the video in lower quality to download?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sadly, I've only ever seen larger files, not smaller