[FFmpeg-user] Increase ffmpeg memory footprint?

[Ned Rockson]

Of course -- I'm constantly receiving warnings saying "could not allocate
memory" and I'm assuming this has something to do with limitations set
within the program as my machine has over 2 GB of free memory (according to
/proc/meminfo).

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:01:12 -0800, Ned Rockson wrote:
> > I am trying to increase the max footprint of memory for ffmpeg. I see an
> > option in -help output called max_alloc but it's not in the man pages.
> I'm
> > curious if there's any more documentation on this or perhaps a different
> > option that I'm missing.
>
> May I ask what you're trying to achieve?
>
> Very seldomly any program at all is trimmed/trimmable to be able to
> consume *more* memory.
>
> Moritz
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