DiscordCompressor

A small program in Go that efficiently compresses videos using ffmpeg.

Dependencies

FFmpeg including FFprobe

discordcompressor <arguments> <input video(s)>

-o filename - Sets the output filename, extension is automatically added
-focus string - Sets the focus - for example, "framerate" or "resolution" (configured in settings.json)
-mixaudio - Mixes all audio tracks into one
-normalize - Normalizes audio volume
-noscale - Disables FPS limiting and scaling (not recommended)
-reenc string - Force re-encodes audio or video ("a", "v", "av")
-settings string - Selects the settings file - for example, settings-test.json.
-forcescore 60 - Forces a specific benchmark score when generating settings. Higher = slower, but higher-quality settings.
-size 8 - Sets the target size in MB
-subfind string - Finds a certain string in subtitles and cuts according to it
-last 10 - Compresses the last x seconds of a video
-ss 15 - Sets the starting time like in ffmpeg
-t 10 - Sets the time to encode after the start of the file or -ss

Settings and logs are located in %appdata%\vladaad\dc on Windows and /home/username/.config/vladaad/dc on other platforms.

You need Go 1.16 or newer

Afterwards run go build or build.sh. build.sh builds execs for both 64bit and 32bit and both Windows and Linux.