Video-compress

Compress video by 90% without losing much quality, similar to what Pied Piper achieves.

Inspired by https://x.com/mortenjust/status/1818027566932136062

Install

First install ffmpeg, then

pip3 install -U video-compress

Or install latest nightly version

pip3 install --force-reinstall -U git+https://github.com/jiacai2050/video-compress.git

This will install two commands: vc{.verbatim}, video-compress{.verbatim}, which are identical.

If you prefer to use uvtool:

uv tool install Video-compress

Usage

usage: vc [-h] [-v] [--verbose] [-t THREADS] [--crf CRF] [--delete]
          [<video path> ...]

Compress video by 90% without losing much quality, similar to what Pied Piper
achieves.

positional arguments:
  <video path>

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --verbose             show verbose log
  -t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        max threads to use for compression. (default: 6)
  --crf CRF             constant rate factor, range from 0-51. Higher values
                        mean more compression, smaller file size, but lower
                        quality. (default: 30)
  --delete              delete input video after compress successfully

Positional arguments can be either video files or directories.

For each directory, vc{.verbatim} will iteratively walk the dir to search for all videos to compress, the compressed video will be named after ${input}-compressed.mp4{.verbatim}.