Resume Encoding

Anamonde · Post by **Anamonde** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:31 pm

Alright... so i'm sure we have all been in the situation when we are 90% done with our encode ... and the guests start to arrive and the missus wants the computer turned off cause it sounds like a jet engine (so unreasonable).

It would be super sweet if there was a resume encode function... same as pause/resume... except you are able to shutdown your computer and continue at a later point.

I guess handbrake would need to save all the information it is holding to a tmp file and pick it up later so it can finish what it started.

Thanks for your consideration.

hawkman · Post by **hawkman** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:39 pm

As I understand it, this would be difficult - the current pause function would not scale to this. It's certainly something a lot of people would want, though (pretty sure it's been requested a few times before).

I believe if you sleep the computer - with HB still open - you can still resume when it wakes up. Maybe that would be acceptable for this particular situation?

Anamonde · Post by **Anamonde** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:12 pm

I have an internal sata raid in my computer that likes dying when sleep is activated... obviously not a HB problem though so i'll just shud'up.

ps. i did do a search for this request before I posted, but could only find things related to the pause/resume button.

hawkman · Post by **hawkman** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:43 pm

Anamonde wrote:I have an internal sata raid in my computer that likes dying when sleep is activated...

Ah, bugger. This would certainly be a desirable feature in HB, though (resuming after shutdown, not killing your raid system

).