#ffmpeg #filesize #media-file #media #size #discord #upload

nightly app n-mb

Simple ffmpeg wrapper to parse files to the most efficient formats within a set size

3 stable releases

1.1.2 Jul 27, 2024
1.1.1 Apr 19, 2024

#1614 in Command line utilities

50 downloads per month

MIT/Apache

1MB
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Automatically converts any media file and makes sure its under your limit!

For all those who want to post memes that are just too big and surpass the 25mb free upload limit on discord, this is the app for you!

nbm usage

This program outputs to following formats:

  • audio codec: opus .ogg
  • video codec: vp9 + opus .webm
  • image codec: vp8 .webp (for gifs too)

How to install Binary(Windows, Linux):

Releases are no longer being kept uptodate, please follow Source installation

  1. Download binary from Releases, put into $PATH
  2. get ffmpeg for your platform here, put into $PATH
  3. execute anywhere using the nmb --size/-s <SIZE IN MB> --codec/-c <WEBM/HEVC> --files/-f=<FILE 1>,<FILE 2> . . . command!

How to install From Source(Windows, Linux, MacOS):

  1. get rustup (cargo, rustc etc) from here
  2. get ffmpeg for your platform here, put into $PATH
  3. run cargo install n-mb in your favourite terminal
  4. execute anywhere using the nmb --size/-s <SIZE IN MB> --codec/-c <WEBM/HEVC> --files/-f=<FILE 1>,<FILE 2> . . . command!

Thanks for an amazing read on how to optimize vp9 for file sizes deterenkelt, I recommend this read: https://codeberg.org/deterenkelt/Nadeshiko/wiki/Researches%E2%80%89%E2%80%93%E2%80%89VP9-and-overshooting

Dependencies

~7–16MB
~186K SLoC