Support for compression only

[uxinnuendo]

You can't currently "convert" to the same format (for compression).

[jakemanger]

Hi @uxinnuendo

That's a good idea and now that I think about it, I have no idea why I would have disabled such a feature.

I should have this out in the next couple of days. Will update this discussion when it's ready. Thanks again :)

[jakemanger]

@uxinnuendo I have just shipped this feature in v1.0.1 - the current version on https://howtoconvert.co/dashboard

Here's a post showing off the feature: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1ijk2jr/a_user_here_suggested_i_make_shrinking_files_a/

Thanks again for suggesting it!

[uxinnuendo]

No problem bud. I'd still like to try out the MP4 compression before an actual purchase - the fact you've blocked that completely means I can't trial it at all. As I'm not overly fussed about privacy and sharing my videos with other online tools for compression I probably wouldnt consider a purchase unless I can test out what you've got. Food for thought.

[jakemanger]

Unfortunately the MP4 conversions require libx264 and libx265 which can
only be ran via the local install of ffmpeg due to their licensing (can be
ran with the app). Other video formats should work however :)

Also note the demo on the site uses a much slower but more permissively
licensed WASM version of ffmpeg. It’ll do some conversions but the ones
that I’ve blocked are only blocked because of this licensing reason.