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by JoeAltmaier 5670 days ago
Not fair. Takes all kinds of software. The packages he ref'd were supposed to manage the process, but didn't deliver for $600. His script Did do what he needed.

Its an argument for homebrew over bloated packages, at least when dealing with process. And it was a great tutorial on Ruby for managing that.
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burgerbrain 5670 days ago
I was refering to FFMPEG, not the various ruby packages he used. All he really did was wrap FFMPEG with a script that called it with predefined arguments and kick it off to S3. He could have seen the same dramatic improvement with a handful of lines of bash.

Probably worth noteing that he doesn't even seem to know how his own script works. He was puzzled that it was burning all of his CPUs without him having to make it do that, when that is exactly the behavior you would expect.

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JoeAltmaier 5669 days ago
True, it was at a low level. I guess I'm just a sap for enthusiasm, which (s)he has in spades.
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