To get a standalone up-to-date version of ffmpeg, go to FFmpeg Static Builds. It displays numerous properties, including format, duration, bitrate, codec ID, width, and height, etc.

To see what changes have been made to a video file, you may find mediainfo a useful tool. However, if, for some reason, you are looking to compress videos locally, the following commands will give you compressed videos that are of similar quality as those commonly found on the internet.

Watch the video to judge the quality yourself. If you don’t see how awesome that is, you did not grow up with a computer in the filesharing age :-) The quality 63 version even gets down to 87.5kbits/s. The exact settings or method of compression used by different platforms, such as YouTube, is often not known. The quality 60 version is down to 1MiB per minute 128kbit/s for HD video, and if you don’t know where to look there is almost no visible breakage. These can take up a lot of storage space, so most platforms compress the videos that are uploaded onto them, in one way or another, without visibly degrading their quality. Here, you will see how to do the compression yourself using a tool called ffmpeg.Īccording to recent figures, 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube everyday 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute. However, most are compressed as they're uploaded in order to reduce storage space.

Video is a very common form of media on the internet these days.

Ffmpeg compress video bit rate