Claudiu Rad-Lohanel <jazzman <at> misalpina.net> writes: > > $ ffmpeg -threads 1 -i input -threads 1 ... output
> however i am inclined to think that decoder/encoder > are independent in this matter, thus, one thread > would go for decoding, one for encoding My point was that it is possible that when you set one thread for encoding but the encoder is still very fast and leave the number of decoding threads at its default value of "0", then your process would could still use all CPU time available on all available cores (for example for h264 decoding). Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user