DiscordCompressor

A small program in Go that efficiently compresses videos using FFmpeg to a certain filesize.

Dependencies

FFmpeg

Usage

discordcompressor <arguments> <input video(s)>

• -o filename - Sets the output filename, extension is automatically added
• -size 25 - Sets the target size in MB
• -last 10 - Compresses the last x seconds of a video
• -ss 15 - Sets the start time of the video in seconds
• -t 10 - Sets the time to encode after the start of the file or -ss in seconds
• -mixaudio - Mixes all audio tracks into one
• -normaudio - Normalizes audio volume (use if the input video's audio is very quiet, loud or uneven)
• -settings string - Selects the settings file if you have multiple, or generates a new one with the chosen suffix.
• -debug - Shows extra information. Please use when reporting bugs, or if you're just curious.
• -c:v - Forces a certain video encoder, specified in settings.json
• -c:a - Forces a certain audio encoder, specified in settings.json
• -f - Forces a certain container, for example, -f mkv will output a .mkv file.

Please check the wiki to get tips on how to make discordcompressor even more efficient without a performance penalty, or much faster. Settings and logs are located in %appdata%\vladaad\dc on Windows and ~/.config/vladaad/dc on Linux

Compiling from source

You need Go 1.16 or newer

Afterwards, run go build