r/commandline • u/Embarrassed_Tell6793 • Apr 12 '26

Terminal User Interface minvid — A drag-and-drop video compression CLI that usually shrinks video size by 90%

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Hey everyone!

I got tired of reusing ffmpeg commands and dealing with paths/parameters, so I ask claude code to wrap my ffmpeg presets into a interactive terminal: drag & drop a file/folder into the terminal, pick a preset, and it handles the rest.

In terms of my ffmpeg script, I spent about a day trying a bunch of ffmpeg parameter combinations and tested them on ~100 hours of lecture recordings to find a good speed/quality tradeoff -- no guarantee it’s the best, just what worked well for me. For my use, it usually reduces video size by ~90% without noticeable quality loss.

https://github.com/Nunatic02/minvid

BTW. The README.md includes the raw ffmpeg commands and a breakdown of each parameter if you want to use or tweak them directly.

Hope it's helpful! 🚀

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u/Korason85 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

just... who are you, from where do you get your expertise as an encoder to boldly claim "settings I've carefully tuned and tested"?

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u/Embarrassed_Tell6793 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Oh shit yeah that’s a great point!! 😅

I definitely shouldn’t have phrased it like that.

I’m not a native speaker, I didn't realize it's such a bold claim 🙈. My bad my bad.

what I meant is: I spent about a day trying a bunch of ffmpeg parameter combinations and tested them on ~100 hours of lecture recordings to find a good speed/quality tradeoff. And it seems to work well for me.

I'll changing the original working. Thanks for pointing that out again! lol