Re: [transcode-users] stop/continue transcoding

[Siegfried Wolkenstein <rough_rough@xxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 July 2006 16:49, Mattia wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:20:50 +0200
>
> Siegfried Wolkenstein <rough_rough@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I often convert one huge datafile for more than 2 days.
> > I would like to stop transcode for a while (during the encoding process),
> > restart the computer, boot another operatingsystem and do what pleases
> > me. And then, when I want to carry on transcoding, it would be great if I
> > could simply boot again and restart transcoding without loosing a bit of
> > the earlier encoded stuff.
> >
> > To put it in other words: I would love to freeze, serialize, later
> > deserialize it and then unfreeze the process.
> >
> > Thank you..
>
> ctrl-Z + suspend-to-disk?

Thanks,

this would be a solution. Suspend to disk is something like serialicing the 
whole system to disk. But I would rather serialice a single process, to a 
file... or tell transcode in other ways to carry on where it stopped before..