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!

  • slazer2auEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    This sounds stupid but what about tdarr?

    Stash the file in a staging directory that tdarr watches, have tdarr convert the file to something small like h265. Output the converted file to a folder rsync watches.

    • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      Thank you, but there’s another problem: I don’t have local storage to write the files to and then upload. I need to write semi-directly to the Cloud.