Timeline for Can too many ffmpeg encodes at once cause loss of quality?
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 12:45 | comment | added | stib | You can certainly use that technique on posix systems, It's been a while so I'm not the person to ask about bash or zsh, but it's not hard to find. This kinda thing is why shell scripting exists, on all platforms | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 8:06 | comment | added | Freedo | @stib I'm on linux sadly :/ but memory is not a issue | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 11:36 | comment | added | stib | If you are running so many processes at once that your computer runs out of memory, then the speed will be MANY times slower than it would normally be, because the computer will start swapping memory out to hard disk, which is thousands of times slower than RAM. It will also shorten the life of your HDD. It's worth your time learning a little bit of scripting to avoid this. A description of how to do it is on my blog here (scroll down to part II): blob.pureandapplied.com.au/proxynator | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 18:56 | comment | added | Freedo | So the only drawback of launching multiple ffmpeg encodes is that each one will take longer? Creating a queue would be too much complex for me. Easier to just launch many and wait | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 7:48 | history | answered | Florian Claaßen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |