[mythtv-users] Cannot max out CPU usage on HLS transcode

[Jim Downie]

> I agree with Raymond's assessment in another reply that you may be
> running into a limit due to the single threaded decoder. The encoder
> will use up to 8 threads if you set the HTTPLiveStreamThreads setting,
> with the default being 2 threads. I have the code set to use 8 slices
> in avformatwriter.cpp which limits the thread usage to 8 even if you
> set HTTPLiveStreamThreads higher. 

Can this limit be increased in a future update to use more slices (if its being controlled through the HTTPLiveStreamThreads setting)?