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Throttle ffmpeg
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Reference:
https://lorenzo.mile.si/2016/07/limiting-cpu-usage-and-server-load-with-ffmpeg/
https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit
brew install cpulimit
Run ffmpeg with:
nice -19 cpulimit -l 30 -- ffmpeg blah blah -threads 1 /tmp/yourvideo.mp4
Note that '-threads 1' needs to be the last option.
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