Sunday, June 28, 2015

Compressing Large video files

My phone records video in HD nothing new here.  However the file size of each and every video is enormous.  So like any other person I started googling to see how I can compress the video files.  I came up with this following bash script [1].  This script will basically list all MP4 files in our directory.  Then use VLC command line parameters to compress the file. Oh and one more thing it can also rotate the video automatically to Landscape mode if it was taken in Portrait mode.

[1]
http://pastebin.com/5VTBWkG5

I was able to get pretty good compression.  My file size which was 24.7 MB got compressed to ~8 MB.

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