Discord gives free accounts 10 MB per upload, which a phone video blows through in about fifteen seconds. Compressing before you post is the only move that doesn't involve paying for Nitro.
This page opens the compressor at 480p / 1 Mbps. At that rate 10 MB holds a bit over a minute of video, and the tool tells you the projected size before you spend the real-time encode.
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This is Compress Video preconfigured for this task — open the full tool for every option.
Select a video; its resolution, duration, and size are shown.
Choose MP4 (H.264/AAC) or WebM (VP9/VP8), then pick a preset or custom resolution and bitrate.
Export — the video replays through a scaled local canvas and re-encodes at the chosen bitrate and supported browser codec.
Before/after sizes are reported from the actual output bytes.
The selected MP4 or WebM container signature is checked, then the compressed output is re-decoded locally to confirm it plays. Its true byte size and duration are measured before download.
Use custom mode: 480p, drop video to around 800 kbps, and remove audio if the clip doesn't need it. Audio at 96 kbps eats about 0.7 MB per minute on its own.
No, it serves your file as-is (that's why the size limit exists). What you upload is exactly what people see, so quality is worth a little tuning.
Technical guidance for choosing settings and reviewing the result.
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