diff --git a/docs/module-internals.md b/docs/module-internals.md
index 4484965..8919c90 100644
--- a/docs/module-internals.md
+++ b/docs/module-internals.md
@@ -149,10 +149,11 @@ regeneration. It centralizes container codecs, optional audio stream copying,
 metadata/chapter policy, encode-failure reporting, and atomic same-directory
 publication. Each mapped stream is allowed to reach its own end, so a copied
 audio tail is not shortened to the frame-input duration.
-Both the raw-BGR and timestamped-NUT stdin modes cap the video encoder at two
-threads. A Linux full-clip trace showed ffmpeg creating dozens of worker stacks
-and severely delaying frame-pipe ingestion on a constrained hosted runner. The
-bounded codec pool avoids that scheduling collapse while leaving audio stream
+Both the raw-BGR and timestamped-NUT stdin modes run the implicit pixel-format
+filter graph on one thread and cap the video encoder at two threads. A Linux
+full-clip trace showed ffmpeg creating an oversized execution pool and severely
+delaying frame-pipe ingestion on a constrained hosted runner. The bounded
+filter and codec pools avoid that scheduling collapse while leaving audio stream
 copy independent. Command regressions cover both supported video codecs; the
 real Linux full-clip CI job guards process completion.
 `probe_video_encode_profile` reads the first source video stream with ffprobe
diff --git a/src/remove_ai_watermarks/video_encoding.py b/src/remove_ai_watermarks/video_encoding.py
index 9f18278..76b19d2 100644
--- a/src/remove_ai_watermarks/video_encoding.py
+++ b/src/remove_ai_watermarks/video_encoding.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 _PIXEL_FORMATS = frozenset({"yuv420p", "yuv422p", "yuv444p"})
+_VIDEO_FILTER_THREADS = 1
 _VIDEO_ENCODER_THREADS = 2
 _PIXEL_FORMAT_ALIASES = {
     "yuvj420p": "yuv420p",
@@ -305,6 +306,8 @@ def raw_video_command(
     )
     command = [
         ffmpeg,
+        "-filter_threads",
+        str(_VIDEO_FILTER_THREADS),
         "-y",
         "-loglevel",
         "error",
diff --git a/tests/test_video.py b/tests/test_video.py
index 3b3e674..07a1b7f 100644
--- a/tests/test_video.py
+++ b/tests/test_video.py
@@ -1971,6 +1971,7 @@ class TestVideoVisibleEncoding:
             profile=video_encoding.VideoEncodeProfile(),
         )
 
+        assert command[1:3] == ["-filter_threads", "1"]
         assert command[command.index("-threads:v") + 1] == "2"
 
     @staticmethod