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Flawlessly compress MOV file to MP4 for faster web streaming (I just compressed 158MB with it to just 12MB in less than two minutes and I compared between the two, the new file actually looks better and much less glitchy)
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mov2mp4.py
import subprocess
def compress_mov_to_mp4_ffmpeg(input_file, output_file, bitrate='1000k'):
command = ['ffmpeg', '-i', input_file, '-b:v', bitrate, output_file]
subprocess.call(command)
# Example usage
compress_mov_to_mp4_ffmpeg('input.mov', 'output.mp4')
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web-usage.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>MP4 Video preload example</title>
<link rel="preload" href="SEO-Friendly-Name.mp4" as="video" type="video/mp4" />
</head>
<body>
<video controls>
<source src="SEO-Friendly-Name.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<!-- Optionally load a webm when possible: -->
<!-- <source src="SEO-Friendly-Name.webm" type="video/webm" /> -->
<p>
Your browser doesn't support HTML video. Here is a
<a href="SEO-Friendly-Name.mp4">link to the video</a> instead.
</p>
</video>
</body>
</html>
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