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xhammer
xhammer

Reputation: 145

run ffmpeg with multiple threads

Ok i have learnt how to convert videos files using vb.net and ffmpeg. But as far as i know we cannot use multiple threads to run same exe file to convert files. Do you know how i can convert multiple videos using one external exe file (ffmpeg)?

I have not tried because my computer time was over. So iam just asking a general doubt whether if we attach it to one process then wouldn't the process get locked? Then can we multi-thread this application or not ?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1217

Answers (1)

Stu Thompson
Stu Thompson

Reputation: 38898

But as far as i know we cannot use multiple threads to run same exe file to convert files.

You are mistaken. Multiple FFmpeg instances (1st level OS processes) can run on a single machine. I'm doing this in Java myself. You can even use the same source file. (Obviously, you cannot allow each individual instance to use the same target file.)

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