GStreamer + HLS stream taking up a massive amount of CPU

[Tim Müller]

On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 18:33 -0500, farzaa wrote:


Hi,

> I'm having a hard time understanding why decoding a single frame from
> an HLS stream leads to such high CPU usage. I've tried Python
> multithreading. 

You're not decoding a single frame. You're decoding the entire stream,
and then you reduce the raw video stream to 1fps.

If the CPU usage you're seeing is reasonable or not depends a lot on
the exact machine and the video feed (resolution etc.)

Cheers
 Tim

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