heh, seems minidisk is making a return, with masers this time https://www.anandtech.com/print/13764/western-digital-2019-16tb-hdd-mamr-hamr 16 TB MAMR Hard Drives in 2019: Western Digital

here's a command I like to use for sharing random video clips

``` ffmpeg -i 20190103_raw.mov -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 10 -b:v 5M -c:a libopus 20190103_compressed.webm ```

why vp9 and webm instead of wider hardware decodable h.264 and mp4? though that’s a question one ultimately needs to ask google

but maybe drop the quality flags and let ffmpeg autopilot on its defaults? and use the faststart option for anything destined for a webbrowser

faststart's the bit of magic which makes it immediately seekable and playable

though could be an mp4 container thing https://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/articles/mp4_movie_atom.html Discover the structure of an MPEG-4 file and learn to optimize the movie atom for your selected video delivery method in Flash Media Server or progressive delivery.

and google has sets of recommended flags for their vp codecs if one does not want to let ffmpeg autopilot https://developers.google.com/media/vp9/settings/vod/ Google Developers: Media  |  Google Developers

once built a CI pipeline for composing raw materials for trailers of mobile apps out of the ui testing