ilstam / FF-Multi-Converter

GUI File Format Converter
https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Multi-threading conversion #23

Closed Detroit77 closed 11 years ago

Detroit77 commented 11 years ago

Hi! This program is great, but you know what could be missing? Multi threading conversion. For audio conversion this maybe very useful because what would become six hours of conversion, would end in 3 hours (approximately). I think this would be excellent, but not urgent , because without Multi threading technique the program is still functional and I appreciate it too. I hope my english be a little clearly hehe! Greetings from Argentina!

ilstam commented 11 years ago

The program that is really responsible for audio/video conversions is ffmpeg.

ffmpeg provide ways to make multi-threading conversion. One of them is the "-threads n" option where n is the number of threads. "-threads 0" is supposed to autodetect the number of cores of your machine. What you have to do is to add this or any other extra options to the Command option that FF Multi Converter offers you before trying the conversion.

Although I don't think that this works for every type of conversion. For getting better results you should search the ffmpeg documentation.