cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15706364

Transparent compression layer on Linux?

My use-case: streaming video to a Linux 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!

  • @MigratingtoLemmyOP
    1•7 months ago

    Thank you, this is exactly my use-case, along with some live streaming.

    However,

    1. How are you running a find command on a warch folder with continuously streaming video? I believe the IPC process has to end (system has to finish writing to a file) for post-processing (reencoding) to take place? That’s why I wanted to do this transparently, since I have no local storage to speak of to maintain a watch folder/cache.
    2. Thanks for the reencoding solution, I’ll take a look at handbrake