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

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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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[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month 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.