CineCinch
Find bloated videos by MB/sec and compress them with H.265
What it does
Sorting videos by file size misses the real space hogs. A 12-minute screen recording at 3GB is far more wasteful than a 2-hour movie at 8GB — but size sorting puts the movie first. CineCinch calculates MB/sec for every file in your library and ranks them by inefficiency. Bloated files rise to the top. You select them, pick an H.265 preset, and batch-compress in one queue — locally, no uploads, no accounts. Built for Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi libraries. Free 7-day trial on Windows.
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