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What's the best open source GUI to compress videos on linux? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to compress my videos without using the terminal, what is the best GUI today that can do this?

Is this kind of program popular on linux? I know that ffmpeg is very popular on the terminal

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Handbrake is great. But I would also recommend using Kdenlive. It is a video editor but if you just open your video in it and just export the project, you will get some good output format options.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When I realized I could just make high quality GIFs with KDEnlive it was a game changer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How is your experience with exporting GIFs in terms of file size? They tend to run larger than, say, mp4 files, right?

I use Shotcut btw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

GIFs exported in the original file resolution are usually pretty damn big, but I don't like giant GIFs myself, so I've found the 480x270 to be a good size to keep most of them below 25 megabytes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I recommend using WebM container with VP9 codec instead of GIF if you are exporting it for web. It even supports alpha.