Compressing mp4 videos files for drive space

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I have over 98,000 videos uploaded into threads/posts so I wanted to see if I can make any savings with ffmpeg, long story short, yes. I compressed 70,000 odd videos (mp4) and saved 154GB, for a 18% reduction of the total of 853GB. No loss in quality. So I'll leave it here. Probaly wouldn't hurt to chmod 600 the log file if you do it in /video.

Set your video path and run the bash script. Run it every now and then.

will create a temp video file.
if temp video file is smaller...