[MPlayer-users] mencoder encoding time?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Dariusz Pietrzak wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > encodingTime : clipTime = totalEncodingTime : totalMovieTime
> >
> > like:
> >
> > if you get two dollars for an hour of work, you will get four dollars
> > for two hours work.
> >
> > 2 : 1 = 4 : 2
> No metter how brilliant this formula is, ain't it wrong - first 5 minutes
> of movie usually contains different style of scenes then the rest, thus
> both filesize and time of compression shouldn't be extrapolated using
> that. Or am I wrong and mencoder eats the same amount of time no metter
> how compilcated the scene is?

IMHO not exactly. But it's good for doing some estimate.

- Gabor