[FFmpeg-user] Turn Off Multi-Threading

[Paul B Mahol]

On 7/30/13, James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Everything else except select filter that you use (but you did not
>> mentioned it)
>
>>can be multithreaded: decoders, encoders, and other filters (but not
>>select one).
>
> I'm not using any other filters.  Anyway, does anyone know
> how to turn off multi-threading?  I tried "-threads 1" and
> I see see CPU usage at almost 200 percent for ffmpeg.

Position in command line also matters.