How to compress video using Handbrake CLI?

handbrake_cli.md

Step 1

Download HandBrake CLI for your OS here.

Step 2

cd into the folder where you have the HandBrakeCLI file and run this inside it:

./HandBrakeCLI -i /path/to/input.mov -o /path/to/output.mp4 -e x264 -q 28 -r 15 -B 64 -X 1280 -O

Step 3

Done!

Reference:

http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/196

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Result

root@ubuntu:/handbrake_test# ls -l --block-size=M
total 1118M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631M Jan  7 22:00 input.mp4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488M Jan  7 23:14 output.mp4