8mbwebm

This is the easiest command line ffmpeg wrapper.

Usage:
8mbwebm video.mp4

kind of simple isn't it?

If you don't want the default output, you can change the output size, the codec, pixel size, etc.
You can also clip segments from the source video.
The main use case is if you want a video shrunk down, and all you know is the size in megabytes of the output file.

December 2020
I've added a redo mode. really, 8mbwebm was producing outsized files about 20% of the time. It currently calculates bitrate as a percent %, but perhaps it should just subtract 600K from the target size, and use that bitrate as a percent.
Anyhow, the redo mode is easy to use. This program asks you if you want to redo,just enter "y".

I considered adding x265 support, but since h.265 videos don't embed on discord, I've decided not to add it. The only planned work is to add better help messages (based on feedback) and to remove the dependency on mediainfo since ffprobe is equally effective.

Thanks wyattscarpenter for adding windows support!

Main Options

• Fast mode with -f
• New size in megabytes with -m
• .mp4 (H.264) mode with -2
• New size in pixels with -s
• Clip from time #1 to time #2 with -ss and -to

8mbwebm [options] inputfile...

 Options:
   -h, -help            brief help message
   -p			set prefix. "8MB_" is the default.
   -ss 			start time
   -to 			end time
   -s			new size like: 640x480 (WIDTHxHEIGHT)
    			    if you like, you can omit one of the 
    			    dimensions, like -s 640x or -s x480 
   -m 			change size in megabytes for output file
   -f 			go fast. ( -fast selects x264 )
   -264, -2 		output in mp4 (aac + H.264) 
  			     ( libx264 + libfdk_aac in ffmpeg) 
   -d 			specify output directory instead of dir of file
   -mono		downmix to output mono.
   -get-fps 		print FPS and exit
   -lower-fps 		reduce FPS by a ratio like 3:2
     			e.g. to reduce 25%, use: -lower-fps '4:3' 
   -get-duration        print duration in SSSS.ms for each video and exit
default -codec is opus + vp9  ( libvpx-vp9, libopus in ffmpeg) `

8mbwebm is a single script with no 'dependencies'.
Works on windows when strawberry perl is installed, and ffmpeg and mediainfo are found in the PATH
Should work on BSD, Linux and OSX when ffmpeg and mediainfo are installed.