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Transparent compression layer on Linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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My use-case: streaming video to a Linux virtual mount and want compression of said video files on the fly.

Rclone has an experimental remote for compression but this stuff is important to me so that's no good. I know rsync can do it but will it work for video files, and how I get rsync to warch the virtual mount-point and automatically compress and move over each individual file to rclone for upload to the Cloud? This is mostly to save on upload bandwidth and storage costs.

Thanks!

Edit: I'm stupid for not mentioning this, but the problem I'm facing is that I don't have much local storage, which is why I wanted a transparent compression layer and directly push everything to the Cloud. This might not be worth it though since video files are already compressed. I will take a look at handbrake though, thanks!

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The problem is that I don't have local storage, and neither do I have very good upload bandwidth. Compression could in theory solve the bandwidth problem and cloud storage costs to an extent, but I completely missed the part about video being already compressed. I'll take a look at handbrake though, essentially what I want is a transparent layer that will compress video files (or reencode video files since the former seems pointless) without touching local storage and shove it into my virtual FUSE system to upload directly to the Cloud.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, if you have the cloud folder already mounted it should be trivial to re-encode the videos with Handbrake and using the cloud folder as the output directory.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Can handbrake ingest video through an IPC process, reencode and push it to a mount point all without touching local storage?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 6 months ago

Don't think so. Maybe ffmpeg can do that.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you, I'll take a look.

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