[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg & infrastructure

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Vivek Jain <vivek.jain <at> mindtickle.com> writes:

> Is there a way we can determine how much of RAM/CPU 
> gets used by ffmpeg operation?

There is the -benchmark option that tells you how much 
of ram / cpu gets used by FFmpeg.

You can typically limit cpu usage with the -threads 
option, ram usage is generally hard to predict and 
can be very high for valid input and typical use.

Carl Eugen