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> I had to compress this bitch down to a third of its original size in order to post it.

matrix and sjw managed to get all of the movie Hackers under 8MB; we were in a thread discussing Mastodon's weird limit: if a video was larger than 8MB, Masto would just *ignore* it completely.

I didn't keep the original file, but I did keep this around:

> ffmpeg -i hackers.mkv -c:v libx264 -filter:v scale=w="trunc(oh*a/2)*2:h=240" -b_strategy 2 -bf 16 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset slower -b:v 32k -r 12 -pass 1 -an -f mp4 /dev/null && \
> ffmpeg -i hackers.mkv -c:v libx264 -filter:v scale=w="trunc(oh*a/2)*2:h=240" -b_strategy 2 -bf 16 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset slower -b:v 32k -r 12 -pass 2 -c:a libfdk_aac -profile:a aac_he -ac 1 -b:a 16k -movflags faststart hackers-smol.mp4

It will take a while for that to complete:

> frame=11559 fps= 89 q=44.0 size= 3584kB time=00:15:55.66 bitrate= 30.7kbits/s dup=1 drop=11531 speed=7.34x