Re: [transcode-users] stop/continue transcoding

[Jeff Hyche <jwhyche@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/07/2006 09:20:50 AM, 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..

It can't be done.  At least not the way that you are wanting to do it.   
In theory you could hibernate the system and it should take off right  
where it left off.  In practice I don't think I've ever seen that work  
the way it is supposed to.  I know I would not trust it to have a  
perfect data file after wards.

The best way that you can do it is to break down the big file into  
small chunks.  Then when you stop the encoding process you will only  
lose the work that was in memory at the time.   I would suggest that  
you write a script to submit each job to the batch queue and let the  
system worry about it.

I wrote a script and posted it last week to do that to large batches of  
VOB files.  I'm going to be posting a new, more easy to understand  
version, in a few days.

Jeff