On Friday 07 July 2006 16:49, Mattia wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:20:50 +0200 > > Siegfried Wolkenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.. > > ctrl-Z + suspend-to-disk?
Thanks, this would be a solution. Suspend to disk is something like serialicing the whole system to disk. But I would rather serialice a single process, to a file... or tell transcode in other ways to carry on where it stopped before..