Unlike centralized social media your videos…

Unlike centralized social media your videos aren't automatically optimized on Nostr.

If a video fails to load quickly or stutters people don't watch! It also places more stress on media hosts, and peoples data plans.

Here are some good tools to compress your videos for smaller size and better streaming before upload.

🔹Android

FFshare - Open source, ffmpeg based
https://github.com/caydey/ffshare
Proton - Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arthur.hritik.proton.video.compressor

🔹 iOS & Mac

Video Compressor
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/video-compressor-resize-all/id1520371417

🔹Desktop - both are available for Linux, Mac & Windows.

Handbrake
https://handbrake.fr/
FFmpeg
https://ffmpeg.org/