Hi, Alfredo, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:52:58 +0200, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote:
Is it possible that a machine under heavy load might affect the goodness of FFmpeg transcoding output?
Technically: no.
In other terms, is a video transcoding a function of the load of a machine at a give time?
Speed of transcoding is, so if you rely on real time transcoding, it will affect your result, because it possibly can't be delivered in real time. If the OS is stable, and you don't care for performance impact, everything should be fine. The only affects I can think of are either memory corruption on the machine, or (at least speaking for Unix) ffmpeg being killed by the operating system (kernel, OOM handler) if memory runs low. But those can be general issues of heavily loaded servers, not restricted to ffmpeg. Moritz