Re: [transcode-users] stop/continue transcoding

[Sebastian Krämer <spambouncer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Hello Siegfried,

you might want to play around with cryopid (http://cryopid.berlios.de/)
(it contains a program called 'freeze' *g).
I haven't used it myself directly and I don't know if it will work with
the fact that transcode uses several processes but you can try. Probably
something like it is used in software suspend2 which I use and which
suspended and resumed a transcode job perfectly.

Good luck,

Sebastian