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jonghwanhyeon / python-ffmpeg

A python binding for FFmpeg which provides sync and async APIs
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Add a `niceness` option to the FFmpeg class initializer #61

Open MaT-PT opened 4 months ago

MaT-PT commented 4 months ago

Niceness allows a process to have a lower or higher priority on Unix-like systems, this is useful to prevent ffmpeg from hogging all CPU resources in case of multiple concurrent conversions.

This PR adds a niceness parameter to the FFmpeg class constructor, which sets the niceness of the ffmpeg process that will be spawned. It also works on Windows, through creationflags and process priority.

ecodina commented 3 weeks ago

This looks good! There are other useful commands, such as "ionice" or "taskset". I think we could generalize this, by adding "modifier options" which would be appended at the start of FFMPeg.arguments. What do you think?