5gbs is too big for all the sites I've tried. Any programs or sites you'd recommend? Or an add on to yt-dlp perhaps?
>>1540145I'll assume that it is not raw but a modern mp4 or equivalent. Those are already compressed to hell and back.Only options are recoding with lower resolution and/or bitrate or splitting into parts. Either into standalone part movies or binary splitting that rquires all parts to recombine back into the full file later (aka HJSplit)
>>1540145What's the context? what kind of sites are you uploading it to?try converting them to H.265 and AV1 . just keep in mind that it is a time consuming process. here's GUIs:https://github.com/Anime4000/IFMEhttps://fastflix.org/here's some info:https://wiki.x266.mov/
>>1540145So because you mentioned yt-dlp I assume this is a file you downloaded from somewhere like Youtube or [spoiler]a porn site[/spoiler], sometimes these can still be compressed. Some questions arise here, do you need it to be the same resolution? The same quality? Download ffmpeg (I think you already have it if you're using yt-dlp) and look up some tutorials on how to get smaller files. Here are a couple of suggestions you can try>this will scale the video to 360p, obviously this is just an example. 360p is perhaps too small for what you want. You can try 480p, 720p etc.ffmpeg -i input_video.mkv -vf scale=-2:360 output.mp4>The -crf option lets you specify sort of a "quality" of compression > according to https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#a1.ChooseaCRFvalue the default value is 23 but varies from 0-51 (51 being the worst quality)>maybe try a value of 26 or 28 and see how big the file comes out and if you're okay with the loss of qualityffmpeg -i input_video.mkv -crf 26 output.mp4>you can also choose quality by specifying the bitrate (from https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Limiting%20the%20output%20bitrate)>you will have to do some tests to know what bitrate is the one that gives you acceptable qualityffmpeg -i input_video.mkv -c:v libx264 -b:v 2M output.mp4Also as a tip, when you're doing tests you might want to only encode a portion of the video instead of waiting 10 minutes for it to encode the whole thing so try to prepend the -i argument like so:ffmpeg -ss 30 -to 1:30 -i input_video.mkv (the rest of your arguments)This will encode the video beginning from 00:30 to 1:30. I hope this at least points you in the right direction. Learning ffmpeg is a bitch.
>>1540156it's lectures from prof. Jiang Xuequin on the topic of Secret History. Channel name is Predictive History, his stuff is really eye-opening to me and I feel it's important to save them. I don't need the quality to be great, I don't mind 720p but I'd rather not go below that, and I want the audio quality to be good. I'm trying to move it to a flash drive and it won't let me even though there's space for it which is strange, but I figure if this doesn't work I'll just buy a larger flash drive; the one I have is 32gb. Each lecture is between 45-110 minutes. But it's true you can download videos from sites other than YT with yt-dlp?
HandbreakI use it to compress my dvds
>>1540159you do know you can download any resolution from youtube, right? this lists formatsyt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joouse number on the left to download specific format plus audio(drc is normilized audio), so if you want 720 you could do.yt-dlp -f 247+251-drc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9JooI suggest that you figure out why flash drive is being stubborn instead of trying to compress a video, youtube videos already are compressed well. we can help with the flash drive problem as well, try moving a small file in it, maybe it has nothing to do with size.
>>1540159>I'm trying to move it to a flash drive and it won't let me even though there's space for it which is strangeFAT32 4GB treshold. Your drive is FAT32 formatted, and therefore a single file can only be at max 2^32 bits = 4 GB big. You could reformat your drive, but just recoding it to smaller resolution is fine for a bunch of history videos.
>>1540162I moved a small file into it, it still works. I've already put the first 3 lectures into the flash drive, the biggest one being 2.66gbs but it won't take the other ones even though I've only taken up 6.79gb out of 32
>>1540167the other anon is probably right and it's because of fat32, if you don't have anything on it reformat it to exfat. reformatting will delete everything on it, so be careful.>connect the USB drive, open File Explorer, click on "This PC," right-click the drive, and select "Format"
>>1540162>yt-dlp -f 247+251-drc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joothis has been working thanks a ton>>1540164>>1540167just reformatted, thank you
