Re: [transcode-users] stop/continue transcoding

[Siegfried Wolkenstein <rough_rough@xxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 July 2006 16:50, Sunny wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Siegfried Wolkenstein 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..
>
> You do not say from what to what format you transcode. But anyway,
> splitting the input file to small chunks and then merging the output
> should be close enough to what you need.

Thank you,

I am more looking at a technical solution, rather than a way around the actual 
problem.

It's like carrying on a download of a big file after a system breakdown 
(wget -c).