/25mb_video_compressor

Compresses videos to just under 25mb so you can upload them to discord

Primary LanguagePython

25MB Video Compressor

"Help, I'm too broke for discord nitro so I can't upload videos over 25mb!" Look no further.

Basically this script allows you to select a file and saves a version with a lowered bitrate so that it's under 25 megabytes. Currently you run it with

./compressor.py

Requirements:

ffmpeg

You can get it here: https://ffmpeg.org/

ffmpeg-python

pip install ffmpeg-python

and also obviously you need to install Python

Random info

tkinter

Tkinter is a GUI (graphical user interface) toolkit. I'm using it to open a window to select your file and another to select the save directory.

In the future, I could also utilize it to give this script a graphical interface for choosing the files, for selecting the desired filesize and maybe even other things I haven't considered.

ffmpeg-python

ffmpeg-python is a python wrapper for ffmpeg, basically allowing you to execute ffmpeg commands with Python code. This is useful because I don't know much about ffmpeg but I do know something about Python.

Things to do

  • Figure out if I'm being optimal in my filesize reduction (probably not) and how to improve it
  • Use tkinter for a GUI
    • Add options for
      • desired filesize
      • desired codecs?
      • desired filename
      • probably something else idk

Bugs (?)

  • One time, it made a video over 25mb. I'm not sure why, I figured it's either overhead (things beyond just the video and audio bitrates) or some quirk that was making it save to a different (slightly higher) bitrate than the one the script chose.
    • Current workaround is to reduce the target bitrate by 5% and hope it doesn't happen again lol. If it doesn't work I'll find a better way