Compress Your Movie Collection — Fit More on Less Storage

Shrink Blu-ray rips and movie libraries with H.265 or AV1. HDR and surround audio are kept. On our 11 test clips, H.265 on an NVIDIA GPU cut 254.9 MB to 128.4 MB, and no file came out bigger.

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Movie Collections Eat Storage

Building a home theater library is rewarding — but the storage costs add up fast:

A single 4K Blu-ray rip is 40-80 GB — a 200-movie collection needs 8-16 TB
1080p remuxes are 8-15 GB each — still adds up to several terabytes
Storage upgrades cost $200+ per drive, and you need at least two for redundancy

VideoRecompress Studio compresses your collection to H.265 or AV1. On our 11 test clips, H.265 on an NVIDIA GPU cut 254.9 MB to 128.4 MB, and no file came out bigger.

How It Works

Compress your collection in four simple steps:

Point to your library
drag your movies folder or select individual files
Choose a codec
H.265 for universal playback or AV1 for maximum compression
GPU-accelerated encoding
NVENC, QSV, or AMF processes your library in the background
Preserved quality
HDR10 and HLG metadata, surround sound, and subtitles are kept

How much space you save: 11 clips measured

Our 11 test clips at the default setting (H.265, quality 23), measured in September 2026 on a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 3080. Savings run from nothing, where the source was already efficient and the original was kept, to 96 % on an old DV tape. Yours depend on your footage.

Clip	CPU (Ryzen 9 3900X)	GPU (RTX 3080)
Timelapse, 1440p	−3 %	original kept
Drone, 1440p	−47 %	−48 %
GoPro, 1080p	original kept	−31 %
Lecture recording, 1440p	−55 %	−36 %
Travel video, 1080p	−21 %	−5 %
Wedding camera, 1080p	−49 %	−40 %
DivX film	−14 %	−35 %
DV tape (PAL)	−93 %	−96 %
Phone video, 720p	−60 %	−65 %
SD TV episode	−13 %	original kept
Web video, 720p	−23 %	−8 %
All 11 clips	254.9 → 138.1 MB (−46 %)	254.9 → 128.4 MB (−50 %)

None of these clips is 4K. For 4K footage, run Test Encode (10s) on one of your own files before the whole folder.

Home Theater Quality Preserved

Your compressed files look and sound identical on your TV:

HDR10 and HLG
10-bit color and mastering metadata kept with H.265 and AV1. Dolby Vision and HDR10+ dynamic metadata is not carried over; the HDR10 or HLG picture underneath is kept.
Surround audio
Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, Atmos passed through or transcoded to high-quality EAC3
Subtitles
SRT, ASS, PGS subtitle tracks preserved in MKV containers

−50 % smaller on our 11 test clips (H.265, NVIDIA GPU)

$79 One-Time Price

4K HDR Quality Preserved

Compress Your Movie Collection

Free trial with no time limit: your first 10 files convert with no watermark; after that files get a watermark and a 10-minute cap. Buying removes both.

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Published by ContentaSoft, Umea, Sweden — developer of VideoRecompress Studio.

VideoRecompress Studio is a desktop application for Windows that batch compresses and re-encodes videos using modern codecs (H.265, AV1, VP9) with hardware acceleration.

This software contains no adware, spyware, toolbars, or bundled third-party programs. The installer installs only VideoRecompress Studio and FFmpeg (open-source video engine).

All videos are processed locally on your computer. No files are uploaded to any server. The software does not collect personal data.

Free trial with no time limit: your first 10 files convert with no watermark; after that files get a watermark and a 10-minute cap. Buying removes both. Lifetime license: $79 (one-time payment, no subscription).

Download size: ~2 MB (web installer). Additional components including FFmpeg are downloaded during installation.

How to Uninstall

Open Windows Settings > Apps > Installed apps, find "VideoRecompress Studio" in the list, and click Uninstall. You can also run the uninstaller from the installation folder or use Control Panel > Programs and Features.