[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: add a news entry for ffmpeg CLI threading
Anton Khirnov
anton at khirnov.net
Wed Dec 6 12:51:12 EET 2023
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News
</h1>
+ <h3 id="cli_threading">December xxth, 2023, multi-threaded <code>ffmpeg</code> CLI tool</h3>
+ <p>
+ Thanks to a major refactoring of the <code>ffmpeg</code> command-line tool, all the major
+ components of the transcoding pipeline (demuxers, decoders, filters, encodes, muxers) now
+ run in parallel. This should improve throughput and CPU utilization, decrease latency,
+ and open the way to other exciting new features.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that you should <em>not</em> expect significant performance improvements in cases
+ where almost all computational time is spent in a single component (typically video
+ encoding).
+ </p>
+
<h3 id="pr6.1">November 10th, 2023, FFmpeg 6.1 "Heaviside"</h3>
<p>
<a href="download.html#release_6.1">FFmpeg 6.1 "Heaviside"</a>, a new
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