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histv - Honey, I Shrunk The Vids

An overengineered PowerShell frontend for FFMPEG

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I was doing a lot of manual re-encoding down from insane source bitrates with FFMPEG, and I wondered if I could put it into a nice GUI. Then I wondered if I could make it hardware-agnostic. Then I wondered if I could give it a dark theme… and on and on and on… until finally I had it working how I wanted and I wondered if I could put it into a single executable file.

So all up I spent a little while on this today and I think I finally have something worth shipping. The executable will probably trigger your antivirus because it boostraps the powershell script, and the script will always throw a warning asking if you’re sure you want to run it. But it works and it’s safe, read the full source and readme in the codeberg if you want to be sure.

I hope this might be helpful for anyone else transcoding videos on Windows! I’d love feedback, but please be gentle, it’s my first project like this and I have no idea what I’m actually doing.

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. Succinctly:

• You like Windows - there are caveats to using Windows
• You like Linux - there are caveats to using Linux
• You like Mac - there are caveats to using Mac

None of them are a complete solution for me, and for a lot of people actually. So, until the day when I have one OS that does everything I want it to do, I am forced to use all three of the major OS. I realize that goes against the grain of the anti-Windows coalition, but that is reality.

You think Windows is a dead end? The OS that is the overwhelming market leader in the category?

I have a 56 TB local Unraid NAS that is parity protected against single drive failure, and while I think a single drive failing and being parity recovered covers data loss 95% of the time, I’m always concerned about two drives failing or a site-/system-wide disaster that takes out the whole NAS.

For other larger local hosters who are smarter and more prepared, what do you do? Do you sync it off site? How do you deal with cost and bandwidth needs if so? What other backup strategies do you use?

(Sorry if this standard scenario has been discussed - searching didn’t turn up anything.)

So being encrypted before transmission and at rest isn’t enough simply because someone at backblaze can send the encrypted files out to you on a HDD……..

lol

Nice ragebait.

For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against my butt crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.

And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.

Dynamic sites still get cached.

Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.

An app to manage your Arr stack from your phone for iOS and Android.

You could use obtanium, which is on fdroid.

How does this compare to Jellyseer?