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Is video that cpu/gpu bound that streaming it over the interwebs isn't the issue?

Maybe my use cases for ffmpeg are quite narrow, but I always get a speedup from moving the files off my external hard-drive, suggesting that is my current bottleneck.

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> streaming it over the interwebs isn't the issue

The hope is that you stream over LAN not the interwebs!

> I always get a speedup from moving the files off my external hard-drive

Based on your description, it does seem like your ffmpeg may be IO limited

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very clever and thanks for explaining. for gpu-bound processes, which are common ffmpeg use cases, this is a great approach
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