Hi there,
I am looking to take some video files that I have and looking to compress them down. Currently the files are MKV’s that are slightly larger then I’d like. Does anyone have any programs that they would recommend using that compresses files quickly? I have used movaivi to compress and it works well but its slow and some times freezes up when adding more then 10 files.
Thank you for the help.
Beware you don’t really “compress” the videos like zip files but rather re-encode them, which is not lossless. Encoding is a very computation-heavy task that can only be brute forced with more raw hardware power.
You should make more research and experiments before doing this, no one can give you a “one size fit them all” solution when it comes to encoding.(i.e. you want to prefer speed or quality, there are tons of option) For starters if your GPU supports hardware decoder+encoder you can use it to speed up the encoding process, this is far faster than using only CPU to decode and encode.
Have a look at what HEVC is if you want to have good balance between size while preserving quality.