[FFmpeg-user] Fwd: Understanding/preventing buffer overruns

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 7/20/2020 9:57 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Splitting this into five separate commands, generating five separate
> output files, running them in background simultaneously, works without
> any overruns, dropped frames, or any other complaints.

This more suggests either a threading/process management issue within ffmpeg 
or that the underlying OS is starving the ffmpeg process for resources. 
(IIRC, some codecs/etc are single-threaded.)

Which OS?

What are the CPU/memory usages in each running scenario?

Try capturing uncompressed video to the null device; then try encoded to a 
null device; that should show if there's an issue with the encoder or 
elsewhere. Try using a different encoder, too, for test.


And please give us the cmd output (again)- at least with the headers, stream 
info, and a few error messages.

Later,

z!