Here's a couple of step by step guides for handbrake. Keep in mind you can only use h.265 on newer video cards, otherwise you can use h.264.
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Appreciate the guide. Had heard of Handbrake before but finally using it for the first time after wanting to share a 12 minute video that was 1.5 GB despite only being 1080p. I followed the steps and successfully reduced the file to 291 MB. Looked flawless so I uploaded to Gofile, but it seems that (on my end, at least) streaming the video shows a black screen while playing audio. Downloading the file results in a normal, completely working video file. Any idea why this might happen? Or is this a nonissue?
Thanks for any advice or suggestions.
Gofile might not support the output format? As long as the download works I wouldn't worry about it.
Lots of sites that you upload to will not support H265 streaming. Downloading is the only option to view the vids properly.
It's more about and not about the sites themselves.
Most won't ever cos they are going for AV1 where they don't have to pay royalties to use.
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In my opinion: Just compress it.
Do you really need the 4K 5GB source file? Or would you be OK with a Full HD file which only has 1.5GB instead? And if you mainly watch on a tablet/phone: Would HD resolution be ok aswell?
For me I realized: HD with H265 and constant-rate-factor of 25 is more than enough. This compressed 1TB of videos to ~400GB, because some 20minute 4K videos were 5GB
. I don't need to see every single pubic hair on an actress.
Also, H265 is your own opinion aswell. Do you want to watch your videos in a browser?
Most people will download the video anyways, because we are all paranoid hoarders.
I personally use h265 because video players support it since ages and I don't use a browser to manage/view my content.
Do you really need the 4K 5GB source file? Or would you be OK with a Full HD file which only has 1.5GB instead? And if you mainly watch on a tablet/phone: Would HD resolution be ok aswell?
For me I realized: HD with H265 and constant-rate-factor of 25 is more than enough. This compressed 1TB of videos to ~400GB, because some 20minute 4K videos were 5GB
. I don't need to see every single pubic hair on an actress.Also, H265 is your own opinion aswell. Do you want to watch your videos in a browser?
Most people will download the video anyways, because we are all paranoid hoarders.
I personally use h265 because video players support it since ages and I don't use a browser to manage/view my content.
This may not be what you want to hear but, if you're computer is "weak", that is if the CPU is not at least an I5 or Ryzen 5, you may end up spending more time compressing than watching. Pricing being what it in today, just buy another hard drive. Back in the day, when a 40MB SCSI drive was $379, I could see compressing... but now $100 buys at least a 4TB drive.
Try using hardware encoding if you can, else get another hdd like the other guy said.
I down convert 4k videos to save space I use this free program
I convert 4k videos to 1440p at 18500 bitrate the 4k videos I down convert have a min of 22k bitrate any less and it is not worth it to down conver
Min video card to down convert 1060 but it 1660 super or ti would be much better a video card for 2012 to 2014 it might take 6 to 8 hrs to down cover a 4k video with a newer video card it will only take 50 to 80 min
I have a MSI GTX 770 it takes 50 to 90 Mis to down convert 4k videos
I have down converted like 200 4k videos and saved like 650gb to 800gb
I convert 4k videos to 1440p at 18500 bitrate the 4k videos I down convert have a min of 22k bitrate any less and it is not worth it to down conver
Min video card to down convert 1060 but it 1660 super or ti would be much better a video card for 2012 to 2014 it might take 6 to 8 hrs to down cover a 4k video with a newer video card it will only take 50 to 80 min
I have a MSI GTX 770 it takes 50 to 90 Mis to down convert 4k videos
I have down converted like 200 4k videos and saved like 650gb to 800gb
That's just stupid, it's not only inconvenient to watch/stream later, but also useless as Telegram introduces Premium which bumps the limit from 2 GB to 4 GB per file, so you can upload them as files and stream later from Telegram. Also, use "Saved messages" instead of a private channel which can be banned.
Kxng216 If you're running low on storage => buy a new HDD, they are cheap as hell costing only $40 to get 2 TB worth of storage.
Also, if you can't install a new HDD, a SATA USB adapter isn't really expensive either. Or use Handbrake as other suggested.
Do what I did then, buy a $130 Intel Arc A380 GPU, and you get access to hardware accelerated AV1 encoding. Keeping the exact same quality, ive been able to reduce the size of my video content by 40% over traditional H.264, literally cheaper to re-encode to AV1 with my A380 than it wouldve been to buy more HDDs,