On 2014-08-12 11:59, Rohit Talwar wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ran the command - ffmpeg -threads <number of threads> -i <my file.avi>

Perhaps you should not be using it as an input option.

> <target.mp4> hoping it would not hog my cpu and consume only one core of my
> machine. But it was still taking up all of my cpu. I ran the following
> experiments to confirm my suspicion that including the -threads option has
> no effect on cpu usage.

Why do you not want it to use as much CPU as it can?  If this is a
desktop that you are using at the same time you should lower the
priority of the ffmpeg process.


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