This python script compress the input video by changing video codec. After install, on nemo file manager and nemo desktop, you can simply use it right click to a video and select Reduce Size.

Alternatively you can use it via terminal. just give file path as parameter.

Example usage:

videosizereducer $HOME/Videos/input.mp4

ffmpeg must be installed on your system.

You can install it on

• Debian based:

  sudo apt install ffmpeg

• Fedora:

  sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

• Arch Based:

  sudo pacman -S ffmpeg

1. Download package and extract it.

2. Open directory in terminal.

3. Type:

   sudo ./install.sh

You're done.

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