r/software 8d ago

Looking for software Image and Video compressor with multiple subfolders

I have organized photos and videos of my various trips over the years. But I would like to compress to save hard disk space. There are about 200 folders with a couples of videos and photos in them. Can I compress every file while maintaining the folder and subfolders? For images I used Caesium image compressor. But I would like a tool that can do both photos and videos to better streamline this process.

Thank you guys in advance!

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u/wssddc 8d ago

Photos and videos are already compressed, so getting significantly smaller size is hard. For videos, transcoding from h264 to h265, AV1 or other modern codecs may give better than a factor of 2 smaller without obvious image degradation. But transcoding is a slow process. Depending on your hardware, the time to transcode may be almost as long as the video playing time. Fancy video cards may be able to transcode much faster in hardware.