Sqsh

Fast media compression for your terminal. Beautiful, interactive CLI tool powered by FFmpeg.

Installation

npm install -g sqsh

Then run:

sqsh

Prerequisites

FFmpeg must be installed:

macOS: brew install ffmpeg
Linux: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Windows: Download from ffmpeg.org

Features

• 🎨 Clean, minimal terminal UI
• 📹 Video compression (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, etc.)
• 🖼️ Image compression (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP)
• 🎵 Audio compression (MP3, AAC, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A)
• 🎯 Multiple quality presets
• 📁 Batch processing support
• 🎛️ Advanced settings (target size, format conversion, custom output folder)

Usage

Simply run sqsh and follow the interactive prompts. Compressed files are saved with a -sqshed suffix in the same directory (or your chosen output folder). Run sqsh auto {drop_your_media} to compress files skipping questions.

License

MIT