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

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Subject	Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:20:05 +0000, goarilla wrote:

> 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, ...

never mind i misread

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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
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