Sorting videos by file size misses the real space hogs. A 12-minute screen recording at 3GB is far more wasteful than a 2-hour movie at 8GB — but size sorting puts the movie first. CineCinch calculates MB/sec for every file in your library and ranks them by inefficiency. Bloated files rise to the top. You select them, pick an H.265 preset, and batch-compress in one queue — locally, no uploads, no accounts. Built for Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi libraries. Free 7-day trial on Windows.
Curious how others manage storage for large video collections: Plex libraries, screen recording archives, camera footage. What's your current workflow for keeping file sizes under control? That's the problem I built CineCinch to solve.
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Hey Product Hunt! I built CineCinch after getting frustrated trying to clean up a video library that had ballooned to several terabytes. Sorting by file size kept sending me to well-encoded movies when the real culprits were short screen recordings using 20x more data per second than they needed to.
The MB/sec metric is the core idea — it normalizes file size by duration so you can actually compare files fairly. A file rated Bloated will typically compress 60–80% with no visible quality difference.
Happy to answer any questions about how the compression works or what H.265 preset to use for different content types. Free 7-day trial, no credit card required.
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Just starting to check this out. The report that shows the files in your library sorted by the ratio of size to duration (MB/Sec) is key; that lets you zero in on which files are the most bloated. It's a tough task to automate howver if you need to select audio and/or subtitle tracks. Looking forward to seeing more development.
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Maker
Just published a short tutorial showing CineCinch in action — how to scan a folder, pick a compression mode, and recover real storage space in a few clicks. If you've been curious how it works under the hood, this is the quickest way to see it.
Just starting to check this out. The report that shows the files in your library sorted by the ratio of size to duration (MB/Sec) is key; that lets you zero in on which files are the most bloated. It's a tough task to automate howver if you need to select audio and/or subtitle tracks. Looking forward to seeing more development.
Just published a short tutorial showing CineCinch in action — how to scan a folder, pick a compression mode, and recover real storage space in a few clicks. If you've been curious how it works under the hood, this is the quickest way to see it.