Quote Originally Posted by nightmage
I am trying to use the cron to convert about 200 vids. It seems that each time the cron is kicked off, it sets 2 of the vids in the process queue to "start download". That is going to take forever!
cronjob will do one process at a time.

That is download a video or convert a video and add it to the site.

When it start downloading a video, its status is set to "start download", when finished, it will set to "finish download".

If you need to speed up the process, you need to run cron job more often, by default it run every 5 minutes, if you need you can run it every 1 or 2 minutes. But this will increase server load as processing video need a lot of CPU time and memory.

Quote Originally Posted by nightmage
Is there someway to set it to check if any of the vids have been set to "start download". If they have, then convert them first. If none of them are in the "start download" status, then get more vids...
This is done alternatively, that is if cronjob downloaded a video, next time it will convert a video if a video is available for convert, not not it will start next download.