On 9/12/22, Cecil Westerhof via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > For a certain conversion I use '-threads 1'. As I understand it ffmpeg > should then only use one CPU. I see that the CPU usage is lower as > without this parameter, but it goes up to 180%. So clearly it is using > at least two CPU's. > Or am I understanding this parameter wrongly? > > I am using ffmpeg version 4.3.4-0+deb11u1. (Debian always lags a > little bit behind to be more stable.) >
threads can be used for input decoding, output encoding and filtering. You need to use threads = 1 for all 3 of them. > -- > Cecil Westerhof > Senior Software Engineer > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".