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Recording an high quality video on Android using the highest available settings would mean that even a 30-second video file will be easily around 15 to 20 MB in size. As external storage space is not a big concern nowadays, most of us don’t care about the video file size. While recording a video the other day, I didn’t care about the output file size but later when I tried to send it to a friend via WhatsApp, I realized that the app does not support video file size greater than 12 MB.
While uploading a photo, WhatsApp automatically optimizes it for web by reducing its resolution but, unfortunately, there was no such option compress video. The tool simply gives you an error and leaves you on your own to find a solution.
Sure there are many Windows based free video converters for the job, but I was in no mood to transfer the files between the devices using a cable or over the Wi-Fi.
Cool Tip: See how you can compress video file size on Windows using the default video editor, the Movie Maker, to save bandwidth while uploading it on different video sharing sites or emailing it.Reduce Video File Size Using Video Converter App
Like always, there are many apps available on Google Play Store that claimed to do the task at hand. But most of them lacked compression settings or didn’t work well. After trying out a few of them, I settled on one video editor. I managed to convert and compress video files using the Video Converter app.
Download Video Converter AppSo let’s see how it was done.
The app comes in two versions: Lite and Pro. The pro version comes with a pre-configured mode for compressing the video size. After you select a video file, you can straightaway provide the final video file size you wish for and get the conversion done.
So, if time matters to you over money, you can go ahead and use the pro version to convert video. However, if you are willing to put in some extra effort to save a few dimes, you can manually compress video file size in the lite version regardless of the video format.
After installing the Video Converter app on your Android device, launch it and import the video file you would like to compress. After you select the video file, tap the Convert option at the bottom of the screen.
Select Manual profile to convert the file and reduce video resolution, bitrate, and frame rate of the video. The recommended settings while reducing video size is 176×144, 800, and 23.98, respectively. Leave every other settings as it is and convert the file without causing harm to video quality.
The Video Converter will process the original video and reduce its size considerably according to the desired output format. If the receiver views the video on the mobile device, he will hardly notice any quality loss. After the conversion is complete, you will see the video in the Gallery from where you can share it via WhatsApp.
Conclusion
After hours of research and trying out a dozen of video converters, I came across the solution. However, if you know of a simpler yet free way to reduce video file on an Android device, please don’t forget to share the information.
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If you are running out of space on your iPhone or iPad and have decided to see what apps are taking up the most space, you probably have noticed that WhatsApp consistently is close to the very top.
WhatsApp is popular and anyone I know who uses it, usually has at least 10 to 15 group chats they are part of. With all those chats, they have tons of shared videos and pictures, which add up to a lot of space. Even if you disable the option of saving media to your camera roll, WhatsApp still can take up several GBs easily.
In this article, I’ll show you how you can reduce the amount of storage space WhatsApp is using and also keep a history of your chats for future reference.
Find the Biggest Chats in WhatsApp
First, you should try to figure out which chats are taking up the most space in WhatsApp. When you look at the Storage & iCloud Usage screen, it only shows you the total amount of space being taken up by WhatsApp, which isn’t really all that useful.
So we know the app is taking up almost 3 GB of space, but which chats inside WhatsApp are the space hoggers? To figure that out, open WhatsApp, tap on Settings at the bottom right and then tap on Data and Storage Usage.
Next, tap on Storage Usage at the bottom.
Finally, you will get a listing of which chats (group or individual) are taking up the most space on your phone.
As you can see, my Family group chat is eating up almost half a gigabyte of data. So is the next group chat right below that. Now that we know which chats are using up the most space, we can start to clear them out.
Export and Clear Chats
The best way to reduce the size of your WhatsApp chats and still keep the chat history is to export and then clear. In WhatsApp, there are a couple of options you have: clear a chat, delete a chat, or archive a chat.
Clearing a chat will clear all the current chat history from that chat, but keep the blank chat still visible in the Chats tab of the app. Here’s an example of two cleared chats at the top of my Chats dialog.
Note that when you clear a chat, it will remove all the previous chat history, so you need to export the chat before you clear it if you care to keep a history of the chat. Once you clear a chat, it will also disappear from the chat backup to iCloud. Any new messages into those chats will begin to be saved on the phone and into iCloud like normal.
You can clear or export a chat by swiping from right to left on the chat and then tapping on the More icon.
This will bring up a set of options at the bottom of the screen. Here you can choose Export Chat to first save the chat history out to a third-party program like Notes, Google Drive, OneNote, OneDrive, etc. It depends on what apps you have installed on your phone. If nothing, you can save it out to iCloud Drive.
Clearing chats will save you the most space in the quickest possible manner. If you have a large group chat, I suggest clearing it out every couple of months, which will save you a lot of space overall.
Note that archiving a chat simply hides it from view in the Chats tab. If you archive all of your chats, it will not reduce the amount of space WhatsApp is using because the chats are simply hidden, not deleted.
If you delete a chat instead of clearing the chat, it will remove all the message history, but in addition, it will remove the chat from your Chats tab. For a group, if you exit the group, it doesn’t automatically delete the group or chat history. After exiting a group, you have to swipe again, go to More and then tap on Delete Group.
Adjust Chat Settings
You can do all of this individually per chat on the chats tab or you can tap on Settings and then Chats to perform the actions on all chats.
You can archive all chats, clear all chats or delete all chats. I don’t really recommend doing this unless you really don’t care about saving any kind of chat history. Clearing all chats is still a better option than deleting because you’ll still be able to see the chats on the Chats tab.
You should also go ahead and toggle off the Save to Camera Roll option as that can add up to a lot of space, especially if you are in one of those groups where people share pics and videos all the time. You don’t want all that clogging up your iCloud photo library.
Lastly, if you tap on Chat Backup, you can see exactly how much space is being used in iCloud for WhatsApp chat history. In my case, before I cleared out the big chats, my total size was over 1 GB, but now it’s only around 64 MB.
So hopefully that helps you clear out some space on your iPhone that you might have thought couldn’t be removed. With the option to export chats too, there’s no reason WhatsApp should be taking up more than a few hundred MBs on your phone. Enjoy!
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I am trying to work with a file which is around 1GB. This file is constantly made changes to and committed to the repository and updated frequently by other users. And this file will only get bigger in the days to come.
The problem is it takes a long time to commit or update the file since its 1GB. I looked up about CVS file size limit and found very little information and that it had something to do with swap memory.
Is there a work around for this ? What would be the best possible solution to make files move around faster? Is it something to do with swap space or CVS configuration ?
Any help/suggestion/directions is much appreciated.
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The swap space or CVS configuration will not solve your problem. You will have the same problem in other version control software (e.g. TFS, SNV, SourceAnywhere) as well.
Your file is too big, you should find another way to split it into smaller files. BTW, what is the type of this file? if it a compiled binary file, you can consider to keep the source code instead.
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