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A data report from RedPanda Compress. All statistics are aggregates over tens of thousands of real-world video files analyzed in August 2026 \u2014 percent-only, no user-level data. Reuse welcome with attribution (see the end of the post).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Methodology & privacy, up front<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

RedPanda Compress is a browser-based video compressor: files are processed entirely on the user’s device and never uploaded. The telemetry behind this report is deliberately coarse \u2014 pre-bucketed ranges (resolution class, duration range, bitrate range), codec names, and connection-quality classes. No filenames, no file contents, no metadata atoms (camera model, GPS), and no per-user profiles; the categories match our public privacy page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known biases:<\/strong> this is not a census of “all video” \u2014 it is a census of video people need to shrink<\/em>, so heavy formats are overrepresented. Orientation and resolution could not be determined for roughly a third of files; those are excluded from the orientation and resolution figures. Connection classes come from the browser’s Network Information API, which estimates effective<\/em> quality \u2014 “3G” means “performs like 3G,” not a cell contract. Encoder provenance was measured on a large subsample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 1 \u2014 H.264 is still 82% of everything. AV1 is statistically invisible.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Codec<\/th>Share of files<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
H.264\/AVC<\/td>82.1%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
HEVC\/H.265<\/td>13.2%<\/td><\/tr>
MJPEG<\/td>1.6%<\/td><\/tr>
MPEG-4 Part 2 (the DivX\/Xvid era)<\/td>1.4%<\/td><\/tr>
ProRes<\/td>0.23%<\/td><\/tr>
AV1<\/td>0.22%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
VP9<\/td>0.18%<\/td><\/tr>
VP8<\/td>0.08%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-three years after standardization, H.264 remains the water everyone swims in. The striking pair: files encoded with ~2003-era MPEG-4 Part 2 still outnumber AV1 files six to one.<\/strong> AV1 has won the streaming-platform war \u2014 YouTube and Netflix serve it billions of times a day \u2014 but in the world of files people actually hold<\/em> (camera output, exports, downloads, old archives) it has essentially no presence. Codec adoption in personal files is generational, not technological: files outlive the codecs that made them, and the encoder defaults of cameras and apps \u2014 not the preferences of standards bodies \u2014 decide what the world’s disks look like. The one codec visibly gaining is HEVC, and it is gaining the same way H.264 did: by being a phone camera default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 2 \u2014 “Video” no longer means “clip”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Duration<\/th>Share<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
< 15 s<\/td>11.8%<\/td><\/tr>
15\u201360 s<\/td>22.5%<\/td><\/tr>
1\u20135 min<\/td>30.1%<\/td><\/tr>
5\u201320 min<\/td>17.1%<\/td><\/tr>
20\u201360 min<\/td>10.5%<\/td><\/tr>
\u2265 1 hour<\/strong><\/td>7.8%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nearly one file in five runs longer than 20 minutes, and roughly one in thirteen exceeds an hour \u2014 lectures, meetings, screen recordings, gameplay sessions. The mental model of compression as “shrink this phone clip” misses a fifth of the real workload: video is now also a document<\/em> format, the recording of something that took an hour because the thing itself took an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 3 \u2014 Nearly a quarter of desktop video is vertical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Orientation of files processed on desktop computers (where orientation could be determined):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orientation<\/th>Share of desktop files<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Landscape<\/td>70.5%<\/td><\/tr>
Portrait<\/strong><\/td>23.2%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Square<\/td>6.3%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vertical video was born on phones, but it now flows routinely through desktop workflows \u2014 footage synced, transferred, or downloaded to a PC for editing and sharing. Desktop software that treats portrait video as an edge case is failing nearly a quarter of real files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the square segment hides this report’s favorite curiosity: 61% of all square videos are below 360p, and 71% run under 15 seconds<\/strong> \u2014 a distinct, many-user cluster consistent with animated chat-sticker and emote culture. Even a three-second looping sticker is worth compressing when a chat app enforces a size cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 4 \u2014 The 5\u201310 Mbps world, and the quarter that’s already been compressed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Container bitrate (size \u00d7 8 \u00f7 duration) of source files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitrate<\/th>Share<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
< 1 Mbps<\/td>10.7%<\/td><\/tr>
1\u20132 Mbps<\/td>14.2%<\/td><\/tr>
2\u20135 Mbps<\/td>16.1%<\/td><\/tr>
5\u201310 Mbps<\/strong><\/td>23.2%<\/strong> (modal)<\/td><\/tr>
10\u201320 Mbps<\/td>20.4%<\/td><\/tr>
20\u201350 Mbps<\/td>9.3%<\/td><\/tr>
\u2265 50 Mbps<\/td>5.8%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The modal file arrives at 5\u201310 Mbps \u2014 the default output of phone cameras and screen recorders. But the tails tell the story. One file in seven exceeds 20 Mbps<\/strong> \u2014 modern phones shooting high-bitrate 4K their owners immediately need to shrink. And a full quarter of files arrive below 2 Mbps<\/strong>: video that has already been compressed once, being compressed again<\/em> to squeeze under some app’s attachment limit. Both tails are artifacts of the same mismatch \u2014 recording defaults and sharing limits are set by different companies, and users are stuck reconciling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 5 \u2014 The users the cloud forgets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Roughly one compression job in ten<\/strong> starts on a connection the browser classifies as 3G-class or slower (per the Network Information API’s effective-quality estimate); on desktop alone the share is about one in twelve. The label surprises until you remember what the API measures: effective throughput, which sweeps congested Wi-Fi, VPNs, tethering, and ISP throttling into the same bucket as genuine 3G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this population, uploading a gigabyte of video to a cloud service is somewhere between painful and impossible. Client-side processing isn’t a privacy preference for them; it is the only version of the product that works at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 6 \u2014 41% of everyday video has been touched by FFmpeg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Video files carry faint fingerprints of the last software that wrote them. Classifying those fingerprints on a large subsample:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last writer<\/th>Share<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
FFmpeg-family (Lavf muxer)<\/strong><\/td>41.0%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Other\/indeterminate tools<\/td>28.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Video editors<\/td>12.4%<\/td><\/tr>
Android phone cameras<\/td>7.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Unclassifiable<\/td>4.2%<\/td><\/tr>
Apple cameras<\/td>2.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Platform downloads (YouTube-style)<\/td>2.2%<\/td><\/tr>
Action cameras<\/td>1.0%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two things stand out. First, FFmpeg \u2014 one open-source project \u2014 was the last tool to touch two files in five.<\/strong> It is the invisible plumbing inside converters, downloaders, editors, transcoding pipelines and apps that never mention it; no other single piece of software comes close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, read the camera rows together: only about one file in nine still carries a camera’s own fingerprint.<\/strong> Everything else has already been through at least one piece of software \u2014 trimmed, converted, downloaded, re-muxed \u2014 before reaching us. The “original” straight-off-the-camera video is, by the time anyone needs to share it, a minority artifact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honest limits: the fingerprint only names the last<\/em> writer, not the chain; “Lavf” is a giant catch-all for anything built on FFmpeg; and a missing fingerprint does not prove a file came straight from a camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding 7 \u2014 .mp4 is a monoculture, and one MP4 in seven is lying to you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By file extension, everyday video is astonishingly uniform: nine files in ten are named .mp4<\/code><\/strong>. MOV takes most of the rest (7%); MKV, AVI and WebM are all below 1% each. The container war is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the label has quietly stopped meaning what people think it means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s actually inside a .mp4<\/code><\/th>Share<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
H.264 (plays everywhere)<\/td>85.2%<\/td><\/tr>
HEVC<\/strong><\/td>11.6%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
MPEG-4 Part 2<\/td>1.3%<\/td><\/tr>
MJPEG<\/td>1.2%<\/td><\/tr>
AV1 + others<\/td>0.7%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

14.8% of .mp4<\/code> files \u2014 one in seven \u2014 don’t contain H.264<\/strong>, and most of those carry HEVC, which still fails to play in many browsers and on many non-Apple devices. “It’s an MP4, it’ll play anywhere” was true for fifteen years; phone cameras defaulting to HEVC-in-mp4 have silently broken it. The extension names the box, not the contents \u2014 and the box is no longer a guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(A small aside for trivia lovers: 3% of files have no audio track at all \u2014 mostly screen recordings and camera timelapses.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary for the impatient<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    \n
  1. H.264 is 82%<\/strong> of personal video; AV1 is 0.22% \u2014 still outnumbered 6:1 by DivX-era MPEG-4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Nearly 1 in 5 files exceeds 20 minutes<\/strong> \u2014 compression is now a meetings-and-lectures workload.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. 23% of desktop video is vertical<\/strong> \u2014 and 61% of square video is sub-360p chat stickers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The modal file is 5\u201310 Mbps<\/strong>, but a quarter of files are re<\/em>-compressions of already-compressed video.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. ~10% of compression jobs start on \u22643G-class connections<\/strong> \u2014 the population client-side tools exist for.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. FFmpeg was the last tool to touch 41% of files<\/strong>; only ~1 in 9 still carries a camera fingerprint.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. 90% of files are named .mp4 \u2014 but one MP4 in seven doesn’t contain H.264<\/strong> and may not play everywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Reuse this data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Data and charts may be reused with attribution and a link to redpandacompress.com<\/a>. Questions about methodology: support@redpandacompress.com<\/a>. All statistics are aggregates over coarse buckets; no user-level data exists to share. If you’re curious how a browser can analyze and compress video without uploading it, we’ve written up how the in-browser pipeline works<\/a> and how to verify no upload happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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