Re: converting a vid with ffmpeg - howto do progress bars?

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 22:13 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: > Hi, i got ffmpeg to convert videos for my CMS to Flash-video. > With debian, it was real easy to set up. > > The only drawback is that if i can't advance the progressbar during the > call to ffmpeg.. > If i encode longer videos, it can take up to an hour each, and to halt > the progressbar for that long is just bad imo. > > Any ideas on how to read what ffmpeg is up to? > > > First, what does running just the ffmpeg command do (without getting PHP involved) ? Is there any information you see which it gives as a prediction of how long the transcode will take? Also, how are you running the command? When I do my transcodes I tend to do it in the background, as this will then continue should the user break the connection, and avoids timeout issues. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk