I now have a video page on the site with most of my good videos For quite some time I wanted to self-host video, it always seemed like a hard thing to do but I reckoned most of the difficulty was due to inefficient compression, most of the videos I will be uploading here are less than 10 megabytes and with a bitrate around 200k or less (I could probably push it further but i don't want my stuff to be unwatchable) Everything is encoded in AV1+opus or VP8+opus (VP8 is lower quality but is decoded faster on old CPUs), I didn't want to use h264 because I don't like MPEG's patent trolling, AV1 is a great codec but very complex and the encoder i use is as slow as 3 fps on an Intel N100 I might do some encoding guides sometimes in the future, in the meantime here's an ffmpeg command : ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 60 -preset 2 -svtav1-params "film-grain=0:fast-decode=1" -acodec libopus -b:a 64k output.webm crf is quality (lower is better, max is 63), preset is speed (goes up to 13…
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