8mb.local
8mb.local is a self-hosted video compressor inspired by 8mb.video. Drop in a video, pick a target size such as 8, 25 or 50 MB, and it calculates the bitrate and encodes to H.264, HEVC or AV1, with NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync, VAAPI or CPU encoders, live progress, trimming, batch uploads, presets and a watched folder. This script builds the FastAPI backend, Celery worker and SvelteKit UI from source and runs them with Redis and FFmpeg.
8mb.local
In Development
This script is currently in active development and may be unstable or incomplete. Use in production environments is not recommended.
This script is currently in active development and may be unstable or incomplete. Use in production environments is not recommended.
Installation
Default install:
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bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/ct/8mblocal.sh)"
Default Credentials
| Username | Password |
|---|---|
admin | None |
Notes
The UI and API are protected by HTTP Basic auth. The user is admin, the generated password is AUTH_PASS in /opt/8mblocal_data/.env. It can be changed or switched off under Settings, Authentication.
Uploads and compressed results are deleted after 1 hour, checked every 15 minutes. Download results right away, or raise the retention under Settings. Both live in /opt/8mblocal_data, so give the disk room for the largest video you compress.
Hardware encoding needs GPU passthrough. Intel Quick Sync, Intel and AMD VAAPI and NVIDIA NVENC are probed when the worker starts and only offered when a test encode passes; the CPU encoders x264, x265 and SVT-AV1 always work. For NVENC the NVIDIA libraries in the container must match the host driver version.
Uploads are written to disk (MEDIA_STORAGE=disk in /opt/8mblocal_data/.env). Upstream defaults to auto, which stages uploads in /dev/shm and counts them against the container RAM.
8mb.local is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: free for personal use, not for commercial use.