{"id":2601,"date":"2015-05-24T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-05-24T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T18:00:00","slug":"convert-and-compress-video-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/05\/convert-and-compress-video-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert and Compress Video Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes doing bi group stuff throws up new challenges that you have to figure out. A recent one for me was how to shrink a video file so it was small enough to email or share online. I&#8217;d filmed a friend give a speech on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and didn&#8217;t realise my phone was capable of making such astonishingly large clips. Over 1GB for just a few minutes!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Use <a href=\"https:\/\/handbrake.fr\/\">this software<\/a> called Handbrake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to guide<\/strong>:\u00a0http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/199618\/how-to-use-handbrake-to-convert-any-video-file-to-any-format\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good points: <\/strong>Free.\u00a0Easy to use. Can convert your files to\u00a0a universally playable format so people you send it to don&#8217;t have to download any software just to watch it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad points:\u00a0<\/strong>Files that are several GBs in size can take HOURS to compress and\/or convert.\u00a0It raises CPU usage to 99% so I can&#8217;t do anything else on my laptop at the same time. (But this might be because my laptop is very old!)<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/166\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/166\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=83147982&#038;%23038;post=166&#038;%23038;subd=bisexualblogs&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes doing bi group stuff throws up new challenges that you have to figure out. A recent one for me was how to shrink a video file so it was small enough to email or share online. I&rsquo;d filmed a friend give a speech on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and didn&rsquo;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/24\/convert-and-compress-video-files\/\">Continue reading <span>Convert and Compress Video&nbsp;Files<\/span> <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=bisexualblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=83147982&amp;post=166&amp;subd=bisexualblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-activism","category-running-a-bi-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}