RE: converting a vid with ffmpeg - howto do progress bars?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Veerman [mailto:rene7705@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:47 PM
> To: ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: php php
> Subject: Re:  converting a vid with ffmpeg - howto do progress
> bars?
> 
> I call it from php with exec() atm.
> 
> just running the ffmpeg command shows some details and then a sort of
> continually updated status report;
> 
> Input #0, avi, from
>
'/home/rene/web/LIVE_WEBSITES/www/veerman.name/mediaBeez_content/media/
> upload/20081210
> 220610/work/original/xy.avi':
>   Duration: 00:43:03.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1137 kb/s
>   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352, 23.98 fps(r)
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 112 kb/s
> Output #0, flv, to
>
'/home/rene/web/LIVE_WEBSITES/www/veerman.name/mediaBeez_content/media/
> upload/20081210
> 220610/work/highres/t.flv':
>   Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 624x352, q=2-31, 999 kb/s, 23.98
> fps(c)
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, 0 kb/s
> Stream mapping:
>   Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
>   Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
> Press [q] to stop encoding
> frame= 1031 fps= 21 q=2.6 size=    5752kB time=43.0
> bitrate=1095.8kbits/s
> 
> (the last line continually updates)
> 
> 
> since it doesnt print the number of input frames, i can't calculate
> progress from frame-count in the last line.
> not even when i put "ffmpeg -v verbose", do i get the frame count..
> 
> 
> 
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 22:13 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, i got ffmpeg to convert videos for my CMS to Flash-video.
> >> With debian, it was real easy to set up.
> >>
> >> The only drawback is that if i can't advance the progressbar during
> the
> >> call to ffmpeg..
> >> If i encode longer videos, it can take up to an hour each, and to
> halt
> >> the progressbar for that long is just bad imo.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how to read what ffmpeg is up to?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > First, what does running just the ffmpeg command do (without getting
> PHP
> > involved) ? Is there any information you see which it gives as a
> > prediction of how long the transcode will take? Also, how are you
> > running the command? When I do my transcodes I tend to do it in the
> > background, as this will then continue should the user break the
> > connection, and avoids timeout issues.

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Anyway, moving on...

I believe "ffmpeg -i <filename.ext>" should give you frame count
information (along with a bunch of other stuff). It will have to be
parsed, of course, but... meh. Also--were you aware that there is an
ffmpeg PHP extension? It's even got a nifty instance->frameCount member!
:)

So, use "ffmpeg" to check on its current frame number, and "ffmpeg -i
<filename.ext>" to find out how many there are in total. As Ashley
already stated, it won't be completely accurate--but the bar will move a
heck of a lot more often/accurately than if you only bump it each time a
file is finished transcoding.

HTH,


// Todd

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