[FFmpeg-user] Script to time all encoders on a given machine?

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 14:15:34 -0800, Steven Kan wrote:
> for each $thisencoder in “ffmpeg -encoders”
> 	time ffmpeg -i testfile.mp4 -vcodec $thisencoder out.mp4 (or whatever extension is suitable) > results.txt
> next $encoder
>
> with error checking, etc.
>
> Or would this not be useful because y’all already know what works on your machine?

What would the results be useful for? Do you want to test whether they
work correctly?

ffmpeg has a regression testing quite called "fate", which is run very
frequently (but does not cover external libraries).

Cheers,
Moritz