I wanted to pipe ffmpeg output to VLC on Windows which took a little while to figure out. ffmpeg cannot detect
what format to use when piping, so I went through some obvious options but it was unclear what was best. So I
wrote an extremely naive benchmarking script that would run a common stream for two minutes and then take the
CPU/Memory usage data from tasklist /v
before killing the two processes.
system
Proc: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.39GHz