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

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Tue Sep 11 15:24:54 CEST 2012


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.)

And this of course does not make sense if the whole 
transcoding process takes less than 0.1 seconds.

Carl Eugen



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