[FFmpeg-user] Benchmarking with ffmpeg - What are the parameters meaning?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

David Wagner <david.wagner123 <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> >> And I'm searching especially something for decoding.
> >> Is there an option for only measuring the decoding
> >> performance?
> >
> > I always use:
> > $ time ffmpeg -i input -f null -
> >
> > (You are right that this does not only decode, it also
> > encodes to the "null" format, but I don't think this
> > will affect the measuring.)
> >
> I want to compare encoding with decoding performance 
> requirements and see how the codecs behave.

If you believe that encoding to the null format affects 
the decoding performance measurement, I honestly wonder 
how you are going to measure encoding performance 
without using a decoder.

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Carl Eugen