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From: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@ltnglobal.com>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [BASIC QUESTION] Profiling tool for ffmpeg
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:53:41 -0500
Message-ID: <CAHGibzHrG_G=+2JfxD+Mo8kNkTW4jzhH-FtV+gVx3GQzRYaSYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577271964.20142847.1740408205310.JavaMail.zimbra@telecom-paris.fr>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM Cesar Matheus
<cesar.matheus@telecom-paris.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm a CS student working on an optimisation of the ebur128 filter. First I'm looking for the nicest way to get information on code performance.
> I saw  that the configuration flag   "--enable-linux-perf"      enables Linux Performance Monitor API, I've been using the perf tool with the following commands for example :
>
> ./perf record -F 99 -a -g --call-graph dwarf ./ffmpeg -i test.wav -vn -af loudnorm=print_format=summary:dual_mono=true -f null /dev/null
>
> but I'm not quite satisfate with the result.
>
> Do you have any advice on how to properly extract informations such as execution time, function call graph etc.. in such a case using profiling tool (perf or gprof for example ?

I've had excellent success with Intel VTune, which while not open
source is freely available:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/vtune-profiler.html#gs.k0kfve

Function call timing, memory bandwidth utilization (if on an Intel
CPU), cache analysis, and very easy to get up and running.  The hard
part is understanding the results, but the GUI makes that *much*
easier than any command line perf based solution.

But yeah, as Kieran pointed out, for any of these solutions you should
be using the version of the ffmpeg binary that contains debug info.

Devin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-24 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-24 14:43 Cesar Matheus
2025-02-24 14:44 ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-02-24 14:53 ` Devin Heitmueller [this message]
2025-02-24 17:03   ` Stone Chen

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