RE: Question About Video Size And Quality
April 22, 2018 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2018 at 11:30 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 22, 2018 at 5:05 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(April 22, 2018 at 4:56 am)Hammy Wrote: I recently installed OBS to record videos for a 'let's play' type of thing... only without my microphone. I should say a 'playthrough' really. Anyway, me playing a game.
I want to upload it to YouTube but my internet is so crappy that with the HD video quality it seems like it would take forever.
Is there a way to reduce the size drastically without losing huge amounts of quality?
May sound like a silly question: But I know there is something like that for audio. FLACs have all the audio quality of wavs but they are way, way, smaller in file size.
So I was wondering if there was a video equivalent to FLACs.
Assuming you are recording to a standard format, there are many programs which can downconvert to a lower resolution (or same resolution with less detail). However, what you ask, is there a video equivalent of FLAC, I don't believe there is. FLAC uses lossless compression which is a method of compressing the information in an audio stream into a smaller representation which contains the same information as the original. More or less by definition, video compression is lossy. However, with a good compression program, the visible quality may be well preserved while still realizing a space savings. I use format factory for translating between formats, which you could use, but I don't know how it compares in terms of the relative quality of the compression. That's not a feature which attracts much attention in reviews, so I imagine it's a crap shoot. You'd just have to experiment and see whether the quality / size trade-off was suitable for your needs.
Thank you Jor. Do you know of any free audio compression programs that are any good?
(April 22, 2018 at 10:19 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: It's really kind of pointless as youtube will compress your uploaded video anyway, but....
Hmm. True. I don't need high video quality though. I'd be happy with fucking 240p (but no lower) but my internet is slow so I feel like converting from high quality to 240p would take forever. Or does it not work like that? Does it take longer to compress further?
I don't need particularly good quality, juts quality enough to see what is being done. 240p may be a bit blurry at some parts, for the game I wanna record. So maybe 320 or 480 is required, but I definitely don't need 720 and certainly not high definition or anything.
