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by infinisil 2922 days ago
I almost couldn't watch the videos on this website because of their size, 50MB each! Just a simple `ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -crf 23 out.mp4` reduces the size by a factor of 10 without noticeable difference. If the blog author is reading this, please consider using video compression, not everybody has super fast internet.
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I thought my internet was down as video would not start on my phone. Lol, gonna be a lot of wasted bandwidth with this trending..
Yikes! Never looked at the file size.. let me fix that
Thank you! Learned a valuable lesson today.