Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: goarilla Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4ucA/L+kOV9wr+0Q03Q+Vg"; logging-data="23974"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19p+77kvrtx3zDGq66Z4qweBfd3OuUHTSM=" User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u9B1QNp2Xz8j2Df394d+QspRy4w= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:966 On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:20:05 +0000, goarilla wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:10:24 -0400, despen wrote: > >> goarilla >> 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