[FFmpeg-user] Encoding x264 hangs in a high turn over pipeline

[Luke]

Hello,
We are testing ffmpeg in our compression pipeline as our commercial 
software does not provide the functionality we need.

We run a multithreaded compression (ffmpeg multithreading isn't used, 
our own solution is) using the following command:
ffmpeg -i #input# -f mp4 -vcodec libx264 -s 1024x576 -b:v 2000k -g 33 
-acodec libmp3lame -b:a 128k -ar 44100 -vf "movie=#logo# [wm]; [in][wm] 
overlay=10:main_h-overlay_h-10 [out]" -y #output#

Approx. 75% threads complete without any problems, the remaining ones 
get stuck - cpu usage on each thread drops to 0, memory usage gets stuck 
at around 300MB.

Initially we used aac and libvo_aacenc coders for audio, but the hangs 
seemed more frequent.

Tested on a few recent ffmpeg builds, including the one compiled on 20/07.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Luke
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