[FFmpeg-user] -threads option has no effect

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

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