One Video Format

by Thejesh GN · January 19, 2026

I have a bunch of screen-casts that I want to release. I have not found a good PeerTube instance to host my videos. I am happy to pay a monthly fee, and I hope one day there will be a platform that provides this.

For now, I will add them to my site, Archive.org, and YouTube. They are all CC-BY-SA.

I am thinking of uploading just one version of each video. No server side transcoding. Hence, I want to convert the videos into the most optimized format and size. I have been doing some experiments and seem to have found decent settings. Its 1080p or 720p with 24 frames.

If its mobile screencast then I will pad them with color, so it can be a proper FHD or HD.

I am going to use WebM as the container with AV1 as video codec and Opus as audio codec. Most screencasts could be just 720p.