Video copression feature

[lufton]

Thanks for you work! I wonder if I miss that in documentation, but could you please tell me if I can somehow convert/compress video files using Scripting? My goal is to send video to Telegram, but it requires the video to be in specific format/codec.

[thomfang]

Thanks for you work! I wonder if I miss that in documentation, but could you please tell me if I can somehow convert/compress video files using Scripting? My goal is to send video to Telegram, but it requires the video to be in specific format/codec.

https://scriptingapp.github.io/guide/Changelog/2.4.6/MediaComposer/Quick%20Start

[lufton]

Thanks, I will try this. One more offtop question: is it possible to determine if PHPickerResult has video or image? Right now I check if

if (await result.imagePath()) {
  console.log("image")
} else if (await result.videoPath()) {
  console.log("video")
}

[thomfang]

Hi @lufton,

Yes! There's a more direct way to determine the media type. The PHPickerResult has a mediaType() method that returns either 'image' or 'video' synchronously:

const type = result.mediaType();

if (type === 'image') {
  console.log("This is an image");
  const path = await result.imagePath();
  // handle image...
} else if (type === 'video') {
  console.log("This is a video");
  const path = await result.videoPath();
  // handle video...
}

This is more efficient than your current approach since you can determine the type immediately without loading the actual file data.

Hope this helps!