Encode After Record with ShareX Actions

[Falafel]

Suggestion: Require preview for paid scripts

You can configure ShareX to record a lossy video, or encode the video right after you record it. [image] [image] bitrate = target size / duration, so you can approximate how long your video can be whilst falling under 8MB. There’s also the more advanced way of doing it which is to use the actions feature. It automatically execute a command to encode the video using ffmpeg.

Easy way to showcase your script by creating a gif or video - important for paid scripts

Well, technically you can ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "scale=640:360" -c:v ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=640:360" -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 28 -preset 3 -g 240 -svtav1-params tune=0:enable-overlays=1:scd=1:scm=0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:a aac -b:a 16k output_360p.mp4 gives me a 1633KiB file for a minute of video, and I’m unsure you’ll even notice it was compressed @Slibowitz please link me example video for testing so we can compare and calc properly

I was thinking if there is a way to record with ShareX, then let it automatically encode the video in AV1 targeting a certain bitrate. This way one can record a preview video in 1 step without having to manually encode it.

ShareX had an “action” feature which allows execution of CLI commands right after capture: Actions - ShareX

The webpage suggests -i "$input" -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 35 -c:a libopus -b:a 128k -y "$output" which works well, but only if the output extension is .mkv. This site doesn’t allow mkv upload so I need the output to be in mp4 container.

I tried multiple setup to no good results. It seems like ffmpeg simply isn’t doing the task. I’m not sure if it’s due to the file extension name.

Also been wondering if there’s any logs to ffmpeg that I can inspect to debug the issue.