starmanFFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades
JuujianI’m not sure I understand. I’ve already been running ffmpeg from the command line and it’s been using multiple cores but default. What’s the difference, what’s the new behavior?
SupercriticalMaybe this?
Every instance of every such component was already running in a separate thread, but now they can actually run in parallel.
Good old RTFM lol
before you could tell an encoder to run multiple threads, but everything outside of the encoder would run effectively single threaded.
now you (should) be able to have all the ffmpeg components, decoder, encoder, filters, audio, video, everything all run parallel
OwlBoyOooo. Will it be automatic? Or do you need to pass a flag?
I was using gnu parallel before with ffmpeg. Is this any different and better?
GNU Parallel allows multi-process, which generally tends to be less efficient than multi-threading. I can’t speak to the specifics of your use vs. FFmpeg’s refactoring, though.