encodeformastodon
Simple command-line tool for macOS that encodes videos in a format suitable for publishing to Mastodon. Runs on macOS 12 or later.
I wrote this tool because upon uploading a vertical video to my Mastodon account, I noticed that it didn’t convert the video properly, resulting in a distorted video. This tool is a temporary workaround until Mastodon gets better support for video uploads. It also serves as a simple example of how to use AVFoundation for this sort of video manipulation.
All it does is resize the video to fit in a 1920×1080 resolution, pillar-boxing if needed.
A notarized build installer is available in the releases page.
OVERVIEW: Encodes and resizes any input video in a format suitable for
publishing to Mastodon.
USAGE: encodeformastodon <path>
ARGUMENTS:
<path> Path to the video file that will be encoded
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Show help information.
You can see a before/after example in the image below:
