[FFmpeg-user] theoretical concurrency limitations

[Anatol]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-09-16 14:19 GMT+02:00 Anatol <anatol2002 at gmail.com>:
>
> > The high thread count caused significant quality reduction
> > with older ffmpeg/x264 encoders.
>
> So this has nothing to do with FFmpeg at all?
>
> Carl Eugen
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I don't know whether it is ffmpeg or x264 decision to use ALL the cores as
a default '-threads' behavior.
Did not check it.

The x264 encoder behavior with high thread count is surely on x264 side.