it’s crazy how hard it is for me to use phone storage compared to computer storage. i used up 98% of 2 tb on my gaming laptop in like a few months, but i’ve had this phone for years have have 40,000 photos and videos and i only just recently reached 95% out of 256 gb (almost 190 gb of that being from images/videos, i have one singular video file filmed on the phone’s camera that is 8 gb)
I highly recommend transcoding all your videos with ffmpeg, for me that reduces their size to anything from 10% - 25% of the original (100MB -> 20MB). I always use this command:
(This will strip metadata, I was too lazy to figure out how to make it keep metadata). What I also do for most videos is turn them all into 1080p30 if they aren’t already.
You can ask ChatGPT to make you a small script to apply that command to all files in a folder, I can’t remember how to do it off the top of my head.
Edit: for linux run this in the folder with your videos:
for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -vcodec libx265 -crf 28"${file%.*}_transcoded.mp4"; done
it’s crazy how hard it is for me to use phone storage compared to computer storage. i used up 98% of 2 tb on my gaming laptop in like a few months, but i’ve had this phone for years have have 40,000 photos and videos and i only just recently reached 95% out of 256 gb (almost 190 gb of that being from images/videos, i have one singular video file filmed on the phone’s camera that is 8 gb)
I highly recommend transcoding all your videos with ffmpeg, for me that reduces their size to anything from 10% - 25% of the original (100MB -> 20MB). I always use this command:
ffmpeg input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 ouput.mp4(This will strip metadata, I was too lazy to figure out how to make it keep metadata). What I also do for most videos is turn them all into 1080p30 if they aren’t already.
You can ask ChatGPT to make you a small script to apply that command to all files in a folder, I can’t remember how to do it off the top of my head.
Edit: for linux run this in the folder with your videos:
for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 "${file%.*}_transcoded.mp4"; done