New Feature: Saving the Gknot Queue

[MajinMarc]

I was wondering if it would be possible for Gknot to add the ability to Pause the Queue, save it and then it auto reloads when gknot is reopened. This would help if I suddenly need to restart the machine or would just like to pause the encoding for awhile. Thanks and I hope others would like this feature as well.

[Kurtnoise]

I think is not possible because VirtualdubMOD can't do that...

[MajinMarc]

Originally posted by Kurtnoise13
I think is not possible because VirtualdubMOD can't do that...

I was actually just talking about the queue in Gknot. Pausing it so that after the current pass that it's on completes none of the others will start. and then instead of having it delete them on close of Gknot just have them stay in the queue for gknot and then you just continue it by pressing start encode again.

[jggimi]

Moved to GK Dev forum.

[Xorcist]

I have been hoping for the same thing, it would be awesome. I often encode TV series and I don't keep my computer on at night, so it would be so cool to set up everything before I go to bed, and turn on my computer in the morning and push one single button to process my queue while I'm at work..

[len0x]

saving the job queue between runs of GK is already done for GK 0.29, but pause will never be possible I think.

[Xorcist]

Originally posted by len0x
saving the job queue between runs of GK is already done for GK 0.29, but pause will never be possible I think.

That's beta, right? I can't see that build on sourceforge.

[pixolex]

Originally posted by Xorcist
That's beta, right? I can't see that build on sourceforge.

http://members.fortunecity.com/bdreve/gk/

[len0x]

i have to build a new alpha since I actually migrated all the changes in 0.28.7.x to 0.29 alpha branch... the versions in the link above may not work properly with current GK environment since it's build against old verson of most tools used...

[Xorcist]

Ok, I'll wait until you announce the new version and provides binaries :)

Btw, do you have any idea why I get a livelock error on second pass using a fresh winxp install and newest rippack and codec pack? I have disabled luma masking and only way to get it to work now is to use an old VDubMod version.

On another computer I get a second pass settings error whenever I try to add a new job, I then have to click on the second pass button and click ok to make it able to add the job.

I'm sorry if this is getting a bit off-topic..

[starwarsandrisk]

alrighty then... i installed the bugger... but is there a way to build in a feature to restart a job between passes??..... i never have enough time to do both passes.... so is there a way to restart a job after the computers been rebooted between passes?

[len0x]

no, the job will be started from the beginning... Crash recovery is a nice feature but I don't see that happening in freeware application like GK.

[starwarsandrisk]

well... i'm not really looking to start again in the pass where i left off..... i'm jsut saying that if the computer gets restarted in the second pass.... if it could then just go back and just do the second pass again instead of having to do the whole first and second pass again

[len0x]

well, first thing is not at all possible, so I was talking about second one.

[starwarsandrisk]

is there a "non-freeware" program that will?

[len0x]

none, that I know of... It doesn't mean there isn't any ,just that it must be very low on priority of most tools: functinality vs. non-necessary enhancements...

[zParticle]

You could actually add a "queue pause" (halt processing after current queue item completes) quite simply, because the functionality is already there:

If you uncheck the remaining jobs, processing will halt after the current job is finished. To resume it, recheck all jobs and click Start again.

A "pause" button in the interface could simply perform these functions for you. Unfortunately, its usefulness would be limited, because usually you want to free up the CPU now, not an hour from now.

Abort is pretty effective, though. :)

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What we really need is an OS-level tool to pause/resume any running process--I think this could be incredibly useful.

[Xorcist]

If you need CPU power you just open the Status Window in VDubMod and select idle priority.

A pause at next possible point (between each separate VDubMod operation) would be nice.

[starwarsandrisk]

though, what might be better though would be a quick process between each opening of vdub that saves its progress.... like a small file that it saves the process of the current queue to..... then if the computer goes out... you can load that last file and start at the end of your last successful pass