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).
