How to Compress Video with FFmpeg API (No Server Required)

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com . You need to compress video in your app. Maybe users are uploading 500MB screen recordings. Maybe you're batch-processing marketing clips that need to be half their current size. Either way, you're staring down FFmpeg's compression flags and wondering how long this rabbit hole goes. It doesn't have to be a rabbit hole. You can compress video with a single API call, no FFmpeg binary on your server, no worker queues, no guessing at CRF values. Why Video Co