This is a video compression wrapper for python using the ffmpeg library. While it can compress a single video file, it also allows compressing all videos in a directory (recursively). Non-video files in the directory are directly copied to the specified directory.
The tool has been written for Ubuntu and tested on Python v3.8 and above but should be compatible with other versions of python too.
The tool requires python3 (generally present by default). Also install the other dependencies:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ffmpeg libmediainfo-dev
pip install pymediainfo
The tool can be run as a Python script, e.g.:
python3 compress_vids.py -d <data_dir> -o <out_dir> -m 5000000 -rec -v -vcodec libx265 -crf 24 -s half
To check the script parameters in detail, type:
python3 compress_vids.py --help
Notes:
- The tool only processes video files. All other unsupported files are copied over directly. Any file smaller than
--minsizeis copied over directly. If-recis not specified, all subdirectories are copied directly to the output directory. - You can pass the video scaling arguments via the convenient
-s(or--scale) parameter or via theffmpegstyle scale string-vf(or--vf). If--scaleis passed, it will override--vf.