Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install decoreco

It will make the decoreco command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall decoreco uninstalls.

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Readme

decoreco

decode and re-encode big media files to save space

usage examples

# re-encode all video files in your downloads folder to h264 and aac
decoreco ~/Downloads

# re-encode all video files in your downloads folder to hevc and mp3
decoreco -v hevc -a mp3 ~/Downloads

# list all video files in your home folder and sort them by size
decoreco -l -s ~/

# perform a dry run of converting your movies folder to avi
decoreco -d -v avi ~/Movies

installation

macOS or linux using brew:

brew install jabster28/jabster28/decoreco

building latest release with cargo

# rust should be installed by installing rustup from your favourite package manger e.g pacman -S rustup 
cargo install decoreco

# if cargo complains about binaries not being in PATH, add this to your shell profile:
# export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin