Bulk compress videos to H.265 (x265) with ffmpeg

Despite being a relatively modern phone, my OnePlus 6T records video using the H.264 codec rather than the newer H.265 HEVC codec. A minute of 1080p video takes up ~150MB of storage, and double that for 60fps mode or 4K. Even though the phone has a decent amount of storage (64GB) it quickly fills up if you record a lot of video. The storage savings from HEVC are pretty astounding. Read more