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
