Windows, continuously write progress on one line

[svnpenn]

When encoding FFmpeg prints a new line every second with the progress, example

frame= 31 fps=0.0 q=0.0 size= 152kB time=00:00:00.72 bitrate=1726.3kbits/s
frame= 59 fps= 57 q=0.0 size= 175kB time=00:00:01.90 bitrate= 751.1kbits/s
frame= 89 fps= 58 q=0.0 size= 204kB time=00:00:03.04 bitrate= 549.8kbits/s

With a large file these lines can quickly fill the console screen. I would like to see the progress on one line if possible, that is to say each second the same line is overwritten with the updated progress.

​http://superuser.com/questions/564483/how-to-make-ffmpeg-continuously-write-progress-on-one-line

[Cigaes]

Did you try to make your console slightly larger?

[svnpenn]

Ha! That did it.

[svnpenn]

At least with Windows, FFmpeg requires 85 columns to print progress correctly. I set this using the registry

reg add "hkcu\console" -v WindowSize -d 0x00190055 -f -t reg_dword
reg add "hkcu\console" -v ScreenBufferSize -d 0x03e80055 -f -t reg_dword

[forthrin]

This has been open for five years. Can it be fixed? See #6942. Personally, an ETA would suffice as a progress line for me -- or time/size/bitrate tops! The remaining information seems quite low-level.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Given that Windows 10 allows to resize the cmd Window, this is less likely to be fixed now.