[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libsvtav1: Add logical_processors option

[Christopher Degawa]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:27 PM Christopher Degawa <ccom at randomderp.com>
wrote:

> That said, if you have a general use-case where this is helpful and the
>> documentation explains what it is doing (and warns about the bad cases)
>> then maybe?
>>
>
> The main use case we have internally is to able to run multiple instances
> of SvtAv1EncApp with `--lp 1` without worrying about potentially choking
> out all of them and also for testing for potential single versus multi-core
> issues. Also, it seems my wording was wrong and it's not to "certain CPUs",
> but to a "certain number of CPUs"
>

Another usage for this option would be to limit the amount of memory used
as right now the ram usage is tied to the numbers of cores used.