weijie90
June 25th, 2006, 06:47 AM
Hi all,
most users use burn 360 to encode videos to the VCD format. Sadly, the cute GUI that ffmpeg uses is much slower then the command line.
The solution:
Run burn 360 and start encoding your file.
Open the terminal, and enter:
ps aux | grep ffmpeg
Nice! now you see the full command that burn 360 uses to encode your file.
ffmpeg -i <input> <options> <output>
Close burn 360 and run this command in the command line.
Thats much faster- but how long will it take?
Search the ffmpeg outout for something like this:
Input #0, avi, from '/home/di/Desktop/video.avi':
Duration: 01:49:29.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 867 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4, 720x480, 23.98 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 112 kb/s
multiply the no. of secs in "duration" with the fps. simple math.
look at the last line-
frame=146863 q=0.0 Lsize= 997168kB time=5874.5 bitrate=1390.6kbits/s
and get a % value. sweet CLI magic!
most users use burn 360 to encode videos to the VCD format. Sadly, the cute GUI that ffmpeg uses is much slower then the command line.
The solution:
Run burn 360 and start encoding your file.
Open the terminal, and enter:
ps aux | grep ffmpeg
Nice! now you see the full command that burn 360 uses to encode your file.
ffmpeg -i <input> <options> <output>
Close burn 360 and run this command in the command line.
Thats much faster- but how long will it take?
Search the ffmpeg outout for something like this:
Input #0, avi, from '/home/di/Desktop/video.avi':
Duration: 01:49:29.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 867 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4, 720x480, 23.98 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, 112 kb/s
multiply the no. of secs in "duration" with the fps. simple math.
look at the last line-
frame=146863 q=0.0 Lsize= 997168kB time=5874.5 bitrate=1390.6kbits/s
and get a % value. sweet CLI magic!