[MPlayer-users] mencoder encoding time?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:41:17PM +0100, Christoph Lampert wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On 20 Dec 2001, Thomas Malt wrote:
> 
> > Do a test run. See how long it takes to encode 5 minutes. You can use
> > this formula:
> > (encodingTime/clipTime)*totalMovieTime = totalEncodingTime
> 
> boy, that is a very complicated formula! Are you some kind of
> mathematician?

Heh? ;-) This is simple:

encodingTime : clipTime = totalEncodingTime : totalMovieTime

like:

if you get two dollars for an hour of work, you will get four dollars
for two hours work.

2 : 1 = 4 : 2

- Gabor