Encoding time for Speex Options

[tech_noobie]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if there is a way to find out the exact (or close approximation) encoding time of the Speex program? Suggestions are greatly appreciated . Thank you very much everyone.

By the way I have asked similar question in the R&D area but I do not intend to do any spamming it's just because at first I have 2 questions at hand and one was regarding MP3 and hence I do not think it would be appropriate to post it here straightaway (should have thought of splitting it and post them in their respective forums ... sorry).

tech_noobie

[Synthetic Soul]

I'm not familiar with Speex, but if you are talking about a command line Speex encoder like speexenc at Rarewares then I would use a batch file, and just do:

CODE

@ECHO OFF

ECHO %TIME%

SPEEXENC.EXE myfile.wav myfile.spx

ECHO %TIME%

PAUSE

This will write out the current time, do the encode, and then write out the current time. By subtracting time 1 from time 2 you can work out the time taken to the nearest centisecond.

Any use?

[rjamorim]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../timethis-o.asp

[Synthetic Soul]

That's useful. Simple and effective.

NB: the first run I did was 3 seconds slower than the subsequent three, which were all around the same time.

I guess this is a memory thing and worth bearing in mind when you do your tests. Run a number of times, discard the first run, and then take the average.

Edit: NB: to pass a parameter with spaces escape the quotes, e.g.:

CODE

TIMETHIS.EXE SPEEXENC.EXE \"death cab for cutie - plans.wav\" plans.spx

This post has been edited by Synthetic Soul: Sep 20 2005, 16:03

[tech_noobie]

Thank you very much guys for your reply . I will try it ASAP. Sorry for replying so late my internet connection was down yesterday . By the way is it possible to create a simple script that would allow me to automatically store the encoding time of my various samples in a text file. Thanks for your help.

tech_noobie

[Synthetic Soul]

TIMETHIS.EXE SPEEXENC.EXE \"death cab for cutie - plans.wav\" plans.spx > file.txt

... should do it. This will spit the output of timethis.exe to file.txt instead of the console.

Edit: Using the batch file method it would be:

CODE

@ECHO OFF

ECHO %TIME% > file.txt

SPEEXENC.EXE myfile.wav myfile.spx >> file.txt

ECHO %TIME% >> file.txt

This post has been edited by Synthetic Soul: Sep 22 2005, 09:15

[tech_noobie]

Hi Synthetic Soul and rjamorim,


Thank you very much for your help . It works ... it works ... . I batch them using matlab, it went very well last night. Thank you guys, I really appreciate your help.


tech_noobie