How to compress files then have them delete themselves

[QuantumBit]

My hard drive has around 1GB left, so I want to compress the ~400GB of videos I have.

Would there be any way to select all the files in a folder, and as one gets compressed, it replaces the larger one? I using handbreak but I can use something else if necessary

Thank you

[QuantumBit]

Well I found out it takes around 30 minutes per gb. (200 hrs for all).

[asquirrel]

Just to make sure I understand, you're planing to compress the videos with handbrake by re-encoding them, right? If you were hoping to use Windows file compression or ZIP/RAR/7z formats, none of those will do anything meaningful to video files.

 

I can't find a option for deleting the files after transcode in handbrake/ffmpeg (handbrake is just a wrapper for ffmpeg, if you didn't know). This makes some sense, ffmpeg allowing you to delete a source file right after encode would be akin to someone handing you a gun and letting you shoot it with your eyes closed. It's a *really* bad idea. People who know their transcode settings are good can write a script to delete the file automatically after the transcode is done (powershell/bash). I think a script is your best bet, if you are 100% confident your transcodes are going to work.

[QuantumBit]

7 minutes ago, asquirrel said:

Just to make sure I understand, you're planing to compress the videos with handbrake by re-encoding them, right? If you were hoping to use Windows file compression or ZIP/RAR/7z formats, none of those will do anything meaningful to video files.

 

I can't find a option for deleting the files after transcode in handbrake/ffmpeg (handbrake is just a wrapper for ffmpeg, if you didn't know). This makes some sense, ffmpeg allowing you to delete a source file right after encode would be akin to someone handing you a gun and letting you shoot it with your eyes closed. It's a *really* bad idea. People who know their transcode settings are good can write a script to delete the file automatically after the transcode is done (powershell/bash). I think a script is your best bet, if you are 100% confident your transcodes are going to work.

Thank you, but handbrake takes wayyy to long to the point where its just worth going over the videos manually and clearing some out.

Ty for the info though

[asquirrel]

Eh, it's winter. Just run 1-2 overnight while you sleep. Keep your room warm.