[meshaneian]

How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?

I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?

[capableweb]

I have a 4k display but record to 1080p, bit blurry but I'm not really using it to find small copy of text, but to see general state of things. Recording in 20fps as well.

I have a small shellscript that takes all video files recorded by OBS, and runs them through this ffmpeg command:

    ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map 0:v -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB out.mp4

Using mpdecimate removes duplicate frames, so if nothing is happening on your screen (although smaller changes gets ignored, like my clock showing the seconds), it removes those duplicate frames.

So one ~1 minute video of you thinking for 40 seconds can get reduced to 20 seconds. Not uncommon for some of my video files to go from multi-GB to just ~100 MB when removing all the pauses.