Cohost should allow video but only 1mb or less so you HAVE to post the most scrungled shit (significantly less than mastodon. not "you can post normal video if you run it thru handbrake" level, it has to be incomprehensible)
i am enough of an ffmpeg wizard to make this work lets do it
An episode of You Can't Do That on Television (I just happened to be re-encoding this for my plex setup) in 44p (yeah you read that right) and bitcrushed as much as I could without it just turning into nondestinct black and white squares moving around at random. It's STILL 36MB.
Cohost doesn't even know how to preview it.
TARGETDIR="/disks/charizard/encode/output/"
EXT=".mkv"
f="/disks/charizard/encode/input/YCDTOTV - S1982 E31 - Vacations.wmv"
echo "Processing - $f"
f2=$(basename -a "${f}")
f3=${f2:0:-4}
outfile="$TARGETDIR$f3$EXT"
echo "New File - $outfile"
ffmpeg -i "$f" -metadata title= -c:v h264 -c:a ac3 -c:s copy -y -map 0:a:0 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:s:0? -preset slower -b 6000 -s 58x44 "$outfile"
slimed dot jpg
the audio was still very listenable, i feel like it could be more scrungled
I got it down to 7 MB however ffmpeg is incredulous at my updated command line arguments
Here's the new one, in MP4 format! Maybe it'll embed!
Edit: OK the embed doesn't play the audio if you download it i promise its there
