Shrinkx is a Python tool for effortlessly compressing media files using ffmpeg. The tool is inspired by the website https://8mb.video and the annoyance of memorizing ffmpeg command arguments 😩.

• Python 3.8 or higher
• ffmpeg 5.x or higher is required and needs to be a $PATH variable on your system. Please read ffmpeg for additional information.
• yt-dlp (optional, allows you to directly compress from a link)

• '-f', '--format': Choose the file format you want to encode the output to (i.e .mp4, .webm, .mov, .mkv).
• '-s', '--size': Allows you to compress a file to a specific size (kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes).
• '-o', '--output': Output directory for the compressed file. If no location is given, the output file will output to the parent working directory of the source file.
• '--no-audio' : Removes all audio in the output file.
• '--chan' : Shortcut for compressing files into a .webm suitable for 4chan (<3.5mb in size, no audio).
• '--discord' : Shortcut for compressing files into an .mp4 <8mb in size

In it's simplest form, shrinkx file.mov will automatically compress & encode to .mp4 for sharing easily on platforms such as Discord.

shrinkx --size 5mb -f webm video.mp4 shrinkx --discord <YouTube URL>

WIP