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Subject: Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?
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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, ...