Hello everyone, in some of our recent releases, VirbEdit has shipped with a new diagnostic tool. I use it internally for testing our application, but we decided it could be useful or interesting for live use as well. It actually serves a few purposes, but the one that may be of interest to the community is the performance profiling tool. It essentially uses the VirbEdit video processing module to test how fast it can read a video. For those of you who are brave enough to use the Windows command prompt, you can do the following:
change directory to your VirbEdit install directory, usually C:\program Files (x86)\Garmin\VIRB Edit and run this command:
MediaFoundation.Tests.exe --performance <path to any Virb video file>
The application reads the entire video file from start to finish (so using a 15 minute video could take a while) using all decoding technologies available in VirbEdit then reports back the time it took, and the over all frame rate. This will give you a good idea of which decoding technologies work best on your machine. It is also a very good indication of how video playback in VirbEdit will perform. I'd love to see what kinds of performance different machines get. Give the tool a try and post the results here! Be sure to include machine specs and what kind of video you used.
