[FFmpeg-user] Multi-core transcoding (performance tuning)

[Brian Cardarella]

Sure,

ffmpeg -i 58518579.mp4 -ss 00:00:16.5 -qscale 5 -strict experimental
-threads 10 -y out.mp4

- Brian

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Isom <jeisom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Brian Cardarella
> <bcardarella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, -threads will distribute the load some but now the transcoding is
>> topped out at 85fps. I am distributing across all 7 cores and the CPU
>> usage has only gone up 30 - 50%. It seems there is some other
>> bottleneck that is happening here. Any thoughts?
>
> It would be useful for what you command line is.
>
>> - Brian
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Brian Cardarella <bcardarella at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> NM, I found the -threads option.
>>>
>>> - Brian
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Brian Cardarella <bcardarella at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Does FFMPEG support any way to distribute the transcoding across
>>>> multiple cores? I notice that on my Intel Core i7 one of the cores is
>>>> maxed at 100% and the rest are idle. In addition, the process itself
>>>> seems to only be 20MBs. Would FFMPEG benefit from putting the entire
>>>> video in memory?
>>>>
>>>> I'm very interested in any performance tuning suggestions. I don't
>>>> want to reduce the quality of the video but currently it is
>>>> transcoding at about 75fps. I feel like there is room to grow here.
>>>>
>>>> - Brian
>>>>
>>>
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