Android Compress Video before Upload to Server

Question

How can I compress a video file in Android before uploading to a remote server? I\'m not looking to zip up the file, because I don\'t think that will help much. I want to compre

Answer 1

One of the app that I worked on earlier has this requirement of sending the video file after compressing it. Here are the steps I followed which worked:

1. Compress the file using a Silicompressor library in android. Run the compression task on a background thread.

2. The output file format will have the mime type "video/raw". You can check that in logcat. So, you need to add this mime type in your server so that the compressed file format is uploaded successfully.

3. After this is done, trying sending the compressed file and it should work.

Make sure the mime type of the file you are uploading to server is accepted by the server.