x264 and clock drift

[liquidator87]

Since I'm doing encodes on a linux pc with clock drift problems (system clock only, hw clock is ok), and while the encode is going I'm doing various experiments (try different tick times, frequencies, synchronisation, ecc...), can this fact affect the quality/correctness of the encoding process?

Excuse me if it's a stupid question...

[Warperus]

As far as you clock doesn't go backward it should not cause any problems. Time estimates for coding might be wrong, but that doesn't affect encoding itself.
If your clock stops or goes backward it might or might not cause a crash in time estimate routines. If it doesn't crash you'll get perfect result anyway.