Fast Video Compression on Android

Avoid Video Compression when Selecting Movie with UIImagePickerController?

Answer: There is currently no way to control how UIImagePickerController compresses the picked video.

I just did some quick tests. Using a test app I created, I picked the same video two times -- once with the videoQuality property set to UIImagePickerControllerQualityTypeHigh and once with it set to UIImagePickerControllerQualityTypeLow. The resulting files that were copied over are exactly the same size, 15.1MB with a frame size of 360x480. The original was 72.5MB with a frame size of 480x640. Apparently this property doesn't affect the compression used at all.

How to encode HD video to smallest size but maintaining its best quality?

When encoding video, the filesize does not only rely on video quality but also on the amount of included subtitles, (when not hardcoded) sound quality, sound sources (a video can have multiple languages included for example) and various other things.

What you could do is strip a video of superflous material, which should give you a good start. You could get rid of all subtitles you don't want, only leave one soundstream, lower the sound quality from 5.1 to stereo, from FLAC to 192kb/s, just a few examples of what is possible.

As far as I know this is done with the help of various programs. I do not know any right off the bat, as I never really bother with encoding/decoding, but this should help you on your way. Do remember that the most effective way of limiting filesize in video is, unfortunately, lowering video quality.

Android Compress Video before Upload to Server

I got a similar problem. Where I had to upload video in server having size within 5.4mb. But due to different camera resolutions of different phones, there was a problem. These are the solutions which I have opted

mediaRecorder.setProfile(CamcorderProfile.get(CamcorderProfile.QUALITY_HIGH));
mediaRecorder.setVideoEncodingBitRate(690000 );

Hope these will help you

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