This tool will bulk encode supported videos to HEVC (h.265) or AV1 format in given directory, with optional recursion and optional hardware acceleration. Primary use is recompression of multiple short videos from your phone or camera, defaults are tuned for this task. Will do its best to preserve metadata and quality.
- mov
- mp4
- m4a
- mkv
- webm
- avi
- 3gp
- nVidia
- Intel
- AMD
Hardware support is off by default.
Supports Windows, Linux, macOS and probably other OSes.
Made for fast reformatting videos for compatibility with Roku (and probably other smart TVs).
- Container is mkv
- Subtitles saved as embedded SRT
- Audio is downmixed to stereo, normalized and transcoded to Opus 96k
This will allow soundtrack and subtitle selection, and reduces problems with sound quality.
Hardware encoder is multiple times faster, but software encoding (default) provides better quality and compatibility. My own testing shows that nVidia 20 series cards and later produce good results, but other cards may lack quality.
See benchmarks.
Supports experimental av1 encoding with --av1. Any --gpu setting will be ignored. You may use amf as codec for AMD hardware support with 7xxx series Radeon and above. CPU Encoding is slow (hundreds of times slower than GPU HEVC), but will produce ~20% smaller file with same quality. Sound will be transcoded to 96K Opus with this option.
Command-line FFmpeg is used for transcoding - you must have it installed in your system.
pip install filmcompress
filmcompress --recursive /home/username/myvideos -o /home/username/myvideos/compressedYou can download and use it as single Windows binary, see Releases
Unfortunately antiviruses don't like packed Python executables, so expect false positives from them if you go this way. Best way is pip.
You will need ffmpeg binaries in path. It's best to
extract 3 exe files from archive to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
Example use with nVidia hardware encoding:
./filmcompress.exe --gpu nvidia "c:\\Users\\username\\Pictures\\My Vacation" "c:\\Users\\username\\Pictures\\My Vacation\\compressed"Remember, you need double slashes in Windows.
- Encoding UHD 4K HDR10 videos with FFmpeg
- Fastflix - Cross platform transcoding GUI
- Videomass - Cross platform transcoding GUI
- Unmanic - Linux mass trancoder
- Handbrake - Windows transcoding GUI
- StaxRip - Windows transcoding GUI
- Av1an
- NVEnv
- media-autobuild_suite
- List of AV1 tools here