Continuous development phase
November 2023
11/23: Added an option to download audio only when using the URL mode.
11/4: Our AV1 video embedding tool now works on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just like x266.mov's embedding tool.
11/3: You can now choose to mux AV1 into WebM instead of MKV so you can use it with our newly revamped
AV1 embed hack.
11/3: SVT-AV1 is now used for the Fastest and Fast presets as the SVT team has improved the VBR. This makes AV1 encodes much faster.
October 2023
10/4: Sticker encoding will now cut any inputs to 1 frame less than 5 seconds (what Discord wants), rather than rejecting >5s inputs
September 2023
09/19: Added MP3 encoding, plus a bunch of other changes that I didn't log
August 2023
08/07: Added WebP thumbnails, allowing alpha in thumbnails
July 2023
07/10: Added HTTP/2
07/08: Added Brotli encoding for static assets, as well as Zopfli 1000 iterations for clients that don't support Brotli compression. The HTML document is not a static asset.
07/06: Fixed an issue where Twitter links silently errored because of the elongated muskrat (it now loudly errors)
07/01: Fixed a serious bug where some videos would error with "Unknown error on first pass" with MP4 encoding.
June 2023
06/23: Remade the UI icons in SVG format: transferred size with
no ads is now down to 111.16 KB
06/15: Improved output file naming: sizes less than 1MiB are now named in kilobytes, or "emote"/"sticker" if the special pathway was activated
06/14: Improved page metrics by deferring the loading of jQuery until after the page loads
06/12: Added WebP icons, even the ones that change, to save you 4-5 kB in bandwidth (it wasn't worth my time at all)
06/11: WE GOT APPROVED FOR ADSENSE!
06/10: Fixed a bug that caused uploads to be interrupted on the hour
06/07: Fixed a bug that gave users the wrong amount of transferred MB
May 2023
05/30: Added an option to remember your target size
05/08: Made the changelog suck less, i.e. blatantly ripped off how 8mb.video displays the changelog
05/07: Started work on site improvements: changes to navbar, dropping the .html from URLs, etc.
05/04: Overhauled the
AV1 embedder. It's no longer ugly HTML.
April 2023
04/27: Changed the default output size to 25MB due to Discord's file size limit change.
04/13: Added Ultra and Extreme modes for PNG/JPEG encoding, which use SSIMULACRA2 to guarantee the highest JPEG quality possible.
04/11: Added Animated AVIF, which offers over an order of magnitude better efficiency than GIF. It even works with alpha.
04/10: You can now create a free Autocompressor account, log into it, and see its statistics.
04/04: Figured out how to track CPU minutes. You aren't limited in your use of them yet... and it turns out that a CPU minute is a lot more than I thought it was.
04/03: Images are now stripped of Exif and color profiles, and converted to sRGB. Therefore, compressing "HDR" PNG files will now work properly.
04/03: Figured out how to do authentication and allow higher tier users to do more things. That doesn't mean you can actually login/register yourself yet, but it's backend progress.
04/02: Deactivated the April Fool's day joke where all files are compressed to 1MB larger than you asked for
March 2023
03/30: Backend is now capable of tracking unregistered users and active jobs. This allows us to bill accounts for CPU minutes and bandwidth in the future.
03/14: You can now link videos that are downloadable by YT-DLP. For now, they must be less than 2GB and less than an hour.
03/14: Improved VP9 and AV1 fast presets
03/13: Added link option. DIRECT LINKS TO FILES ONLY right now, yt-dlp comes later, perhaps even today.
Known issues: Uploads seem a little slow. We'll be trying to figure that out.
Transcodes will be up to 3 times faster, and large images can be handled more easily.
03/10: RELEASE 0.2! :woag: We now have a faster server.
03/02: Added a video thumbnail feature (interface is bad but it exists)
February 2023
02/28: Overshoot retrys caused by video will no longer harm audio quality and vice versa
02/24: Fixed AWebP to use the new faster Q-seeking algorithm
02/23: No more losing your progress on a transcode! Each job has its own URL now, so you can just go back
02/23: Fixed an issue where "bitrate too low for the selected codec" didn't show up
02/19: Huge speed and filesize accuracy improvements for all image encoding
02/17: PROGRESS REPORTING!!!! for video encoding
02/16: New, better looking UI
02/16: Join our Discord server!
02/14: Proper support for animated and still Discord emote and sticker encoding
02/05: Added AVIF still image encoding for up to 50% better efficiency than JPEG
02/04: JPEG/PNG encoding is now WAY faster and has presets
January 2023
01/30: Adjusted WebP encoding based on
new science
01/20: Added Smart Audio Adjustment (see
about page)
01/08: Added AV1
01/08: Fixed a mathematical error causing too high res to be selected in fast presets
01/05: Finally figured out how i broke autocompressor :facepalm:
December 2022
12/06: Contact page that is actually just a mailto
12/02: AV1 embed tool
link
November 2022
11/18: Completed transcodes are deleted after 24 hours
October 2022
10/27: Animated WebP output (same logic as still WebP)
10/26: APNG output support (not very optimized)
10/24: Made conversion to PNG/JPEG suck less
10/23: Supports inputs in the "High Efficiency" Image Codec
10/19: HTTPS... finally
10/19: Improved JPEG and WebP output
10/18: About page
10/17: VP9/Opus anti overshoot loop
10/16: H.264/AAC anti overshoot loop
10/14: WebP image output
10/12: Image file compression (PNG/JPG only)
10/12: Audio only file compression
10/02: VP9/Opus WebM support
September 2022
09/30: Pricing page
09/30: Fully functioning GIF compression
09/30: beginning of changelog