video-compression 6

I sometimes use Google Meet, Teams, Zoom, etc. to record workshops and talks. These record the entire session, including before and after the actual talk, and save it as large MP4 files. I use ffmpeg to trim the video to just the talk, and then compress it for sharing. I’m sharing the options that work for me, discovered by trial-and-error. To trim it, I use the following command: ffmpeg -ss 00:10:00 -to 02:10:00 \ -i "original.mp4" \ -map 0 \ -c copy \ -avoid_negative_ts make_zero \ -movflags +faststart \ new.mp4 Arguments: ...

I recorded a short screen cast of a demo I built. It was ~900KB - way too large to publish as a thumbnail. So I asked ChatGPT: What’s the best equivalent of squoosh.app for WEBM compression? I’m looking for a free modern high-quality online video compressor. There are a few, and they compressed it to a third of its size, but 300KB is still too large. So I attached the original and asked: ...

Dr DivX is now open source. You may prefer it to Virtual Dub.

Capturing movies on the fly. Comments Sumit Dhar 30 Nov 2005 1:28 am: SnapZ is a Mac only application? For Windows, I use VirtualDub. Not very intuitive or easy to use, but does the job. S Anand 30 Nov 2005 11:07 am: So do I! It’s pretty effective. I do my video compression on VirtualDub as well.

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.

Now I can watch DivX movies on my laptop.