My use-case: streaming video to a Linux virtual mount and want compression of said video files on the fly.

Rclone has an experimental remote for compression but this stuff is important to me so that’s no good. I know rsync can do it but will it work for video files, and how I get rsync to warch the virtual mount-point and automatically compress and move over each individual file to rclone for upload to the Cloud? This is mostly to save on upload bandwidth and storage costs.

Thanks!

Edit: I’m stupid for not mentioning this, but the problem I’m facing is that I don’t have much local storage, which is why I wanted a transparent compression layer and directly push everything to the Cloud. This might not be worth it though since video files are already compressed. I will take a look at handbrake though, thanks!

  • @MigratingtoLemmy
    cake
    OP
    link
    English
    124 days ago

    Thanks, but the second problem I’m working with (and what I forgot to mention) is that I have no local storage - I would like to write semi-directly to cloud storage. I can probably manage a few GB for caching and that’s it.