Compress OBS Recordings & Stream Archives to H.265

Shrink OBS Studio recordings, VOD archives, and stream highlights. GPU-accelerated batch compression.

OBS Recordings Fill Your Drive Fast

Streamers and content creators know the pain — recording settings optimized for quality produce massive files:

Lossless or high-CRF OBS recordings: 20-50 GB per hour
Stream VOD archives accumulate hundreds of gigabytes per month
Keeping highlights and raw footage means constant drive management

VideoRecompress Studio compresses your OBS recordings after the stream. OBS records H.264 by default. At the same quality setting, H.265 files were a median 33 % smaller than H.264 in our 11 measured pairs.

How It Works with OBS

Designed to fit into your streaming workflow:

Point to your OBS output folder
drag your recordings directory
Pick a preset
'YouTube Raw Footage' for upload-ready files or 'Maximum Savings' for archive
Batch compress overnight
GPU-accelerated encoding processes your backlog while you sleep
MKV and MP4 support
handles OBS's native MKV recordings and remuxed MP4s

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.

Fits Your Streaming Workflow

Compress after streaming — no impact on live performance:

Record at max quality
keep your OBS settings lossless or high-bitrate for editing
Compress after editing
batch compress final exports and raw recordings
CLI automation
schedule compression jobs via command line for hands-free workflow

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

$79 One-Time Price

GPU Hardware Accelerated

Compress Your Stream Archives

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.