DisCompress

DisCompress is a GTK3 desktop app that makes it easy to compress videos for Discord. It is a thin, dark-themed frontend around ffmpeg + ffprobe, with Discord-specific size presets and live progress.

Screenshot

Features

• Drag & drop a video directly onto the window.
• Discord size presets: 8 MB (Free) and 25 MB (Nitro).
• Automatic bitrate calculation from desired size (MB) and real duration.
• x264 preset selector + visual speed/quality slider.
• Live ffmpeg log in a dark, Discord-like theme.
• Progress bar based on the time= field from ffmpeg output.
• Clear completion dialog with the exact output path.
• Cancel button to stop an ongoing encode.

Requirements

• Python 3
• PyGObject + GTK3 (e.g. python3-gi, gir1.2-gtk-3.0 depending on your distro)
• ffmpeg and ffprobe installed and available in PATH

Example on Debian/Ubuntu-based systems:

sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0 ffmpeg

Example on Arch Linux (pacman):

sudo pacman -S python-gobject gtk3 ffmpeg

Example on Fedora (dnf):

sudo dnf install python3-gobject gtk3 ffmpeg

On other distributions, install the PyGObject/GTK3 bindings for Python 3 and ffmpeg/ffprobe from your package manager using equivalent package names.

Run

git clone https://github.com/snowarch/DisCompress.git
cd DisCompress
python3 main.py

Usage

1. Start DisCompress.
2. Drag a video onto the drop area, or click "Choose file" and pick one.
3. Adjust:
   • Target size (MB), or use one of the Discord presets.
   • Audio (kbps).
   • x264 Preset and the Speed / quality slider.
4. Optionally change the output path.
5. Click Compress.

You will see:

• A live ffmpeg log.
• A percentage-based progress bar.
• A final dialog showing exactly where the compressed file was saved.

License

MIT. See the LICENSE file.