Question Thread for Danielle

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Originally Posted by RonTheLogician

Thanks for answering my main question. But you could do a lot better with VERY LITTLE additional work. Here follows a lesson on how using even SIMPLE (grade school) math lets us improve your estimate.

Isn't it true that until recently all your vlog videos used a common video format and codec (coding/decoding algorithm)? If so, it means that the amount of data recorded per minute of play would be approximately constant. Look at one (or more) video(s) to compute this data rate (MB/minute). Then look at the size of the server directory which holds ALL your vlogs (or have your server tech do it.) Finally, do a single division to guestimate the total run time of ALL your vlogs.

You're welcome!
RtL

It's even easier if you let Windows do all the calculations:
Open the Windows Explorer, go into the folder holding the video logs, choose the Details view, sort by file type, mark all the video files based on the file type (Click on the first, shift-click on the last), right click on the selection and select "Properties" in the context menu. On the Details tab of the properties Windows Explorer will calculate the running time of all selected videos combined.

I'm getting 52:35:22 in WMVs and 7:11:29 in MP4s, totaling in 59:46:51 playing time for all video logs. (That's just short of 2 1/2 days of constant videos.)

Calculating the play time of other video categories like Professional or Candid is a bit more difficult, as the single scenes exist in multiple files with different quality.