Trying to reduce mpeg file size

[clint70]

Trying to reduce the file size of the video for uploading to another application, that requires no more than 8MB. I thought the -fs setting for extra timelapse... would do that, but instead it clips the file at 4MB (I used this code)

# Any additional timelapse parameters. Run "ffmpeg -?" to see the options. TIMELAPSE_EXTRA_PARAMETERS="-fs 4M"

Does anyone have experience / success with this type of setting?

[EricClaeys]

@clint70 Did you try -fs 8M ?

[clint70]

Yes I did, same result, video was trimmed at 8MB, it didn't output the whole video.

[EricClaeys]

@clint70 I think the things you can change to decrease the file size are the size of the video, the quality (TIMELAPSE_BITRATE), and the encoder.
I would start off making it as small as you can, then decrease the bitrate. If that doesn't get you to 8 MB, try a different encoder, but realize it may take a lot longer to process. The Wiki page on Troubleshooting timelapse has an example using the libx25 encoder.