Reduce to 10MB

[jay123210599]

What are some tools that can reduce the file size of any video, no matter how large it is, to 10MB or less?

[StainlessS]

Where can I get some magic beans which can grow a huge beanstalk that has lots of gold if you climb up to the top (and no giants) ?

[microchip8]

Did you even think before you made that post?

[GeoffreyA]

Originally Posted by jay123210599

What are some tools that can reduce the file size of any video, no matter how large it is, to 10MB or less?

A black hole should squeeze the file nicely. Problem is, it won't be accessible afterwards. If a black hole isn't within reach, try 2-pass encoding where the video bitrate is set to a value that, along with the duration and audio bitrate, equates to a file size of 10 MB. It will vary, and encoding may not converge on that bitrate if it's too small or big. Use a bitrate calculator, such as this one, to work out the video bitrate backwards from a final size.

[Katie Boundary]

Virtualdub and its resize filter.

Xvid with a target quantizer of 31.

[Z2697]

Hex editor

[Frank62]

You can try with the power of Avisynth:

Trim(0,-1)

gives you only the first frame.

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by jay123210599

What are some tools that can reduce the file size of any video, no matter how large it is, to 10MB or less?

1) Use MD5 to compress your videos to 128 bits.
2) Wait for the quantum TV sets to play your MD5s.
3) PROFIT!

[StainlessS]

Lets see you reduce this YT [32:48] movie to 10MB or less (almost as good as babylon5)
STAR BABES & STARSHIPS 17: THE PILOT EPISODE [32:48]:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIgugEAXTc

And their channel:- 21st century mouse [Art, Animatronics, Visual effects & AI graphics]
https://www.youtube.com/@21stcenturymouse42

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[GeoffreyA]

Originally Posted by StainlessS

Lets see you reduce this YT [32:48] movie to 10MB or less (almost as good as babylon5)
STAR BABES & STARSHIPS 17: THE PILOT EPISODE [32:48]:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIgugEAXTc

And their channel:- 21st century mouse [AI graphics]
https://www.youtube.com/@21stcenturymouse42

Close. I was able to get it down to 11.2 MB using vvenc QP63 medium at 1080p and no audio.

https://we.tl/t-kgtOVB1e3o

[StainlessS]

Close. I was able to get it down to 11.2 MB using vvenc QP63 medium at 1080p and no audio.

General
Complete name                            : C:\Users\user\Downloads\VVC-QP63.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/mp41)
File size                                : 11.3 MiB
Duration                                 : 32 min 48 s
Overall bit rate                         : 48.0 kb/s
Frame rate                               : 30.000 FPS
Writing application                      : Lavf62.0.100

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : VVC
Codec ID                                 : vvc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Versatile Video Coding
Duration                                 : 32 min 48 s
Bit rate                                 : 45.1 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 30.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.001
Stream size                              : 10.6 MiB (94%)
Title                                    : ISO Media file produced by Google Inc.
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
mdhd_Duration                            : 1967367
Codec configuration box                  : vvcC

ReportBy                                 : MediaInfoLib - v23.07
CreatedOn                                : UTC 2025-04-21 11:23:48

Wow, I thought you woz kidding !

It does however lose a little something in translation, and points off for no audio

Well done mate.

EDIT: A quite contemporary fellow from the past and future [GALACTIC NEWS]:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoObUXnzj5w

[GeoffreyA]

Well, I was a little surprised it came out that watchable at 45 kbps. The much-maligned VVC has a use case after all

Later, for the audio, I tried Opus at 5 kbps, but it sounded worse than a cassette that's been cut, spliced, and trampled underfoot. xHE-AAC, with a bitrate of 40 kbps, by way of exhale, was clear.

As for that intergalactic criminal, who hails from my home planet, the Quantum Police ought to apprehend him before he reaches Proxima Centauri, to which he takes flight at present, hoping to build the colony of Muskerica

[foxyshadis]

Absolutely, all these fancy new codecs aren't really much of an improvement over x264 with high quality video, but they do dramatically better when you really squeeze the bits for all they're worth. (Partly due to the way gigantic transforms effectively downscale the video at the extremes.)

[GeoffreyA]

It's interesting, from an historical point of view, that x264 reached (mostly) critical mass of technology and implementation.