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| From | goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? |
| Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:20:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:10:24 -0400, despen wrote: > goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> > writes: > >> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:08:35 -0400, despen wrote: >> >>> despen@verizon.net writes: >>> Follow up. >>> >>> Progress is calculated off file size. >>> >>> An approach that is sure to fail. >> >> out of curiousity how would you design an accurate progress meter ? > > To start with, see next sentence: > >>> They should never let the number hit 100%, perhaps a message, "still >>> running, taking longer than expected..." > > Accurate would require that the program doing the conversion output > percentage numbers as it runs. Only that program would know where it is > in the input file. > > You can't really infer much from the size of the output file. yeah but a lot of times these programs are frontends for ffmpeg, mencoder, vobcopy, lame, ...
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devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 21:43 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-04-26 16:23 -0500
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 17:43 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 23:43 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 21:48 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 08:22 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-27 10:41 +0000
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 17:58 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:10 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:18 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 16:59 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 12:53 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:08 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:17 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-28 11:05 +0000
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-28 12:20 +0100
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-28 09:10 -0400
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 21:11 +0000
Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mysterious Traveler <mysterious.traveler@dot.net> - 2011-04-27 02:20 -0500
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