Possible to pause render?

[LeoH]

I run some big AviSynth scripts through VDubMod and my renders can sometimes take 40 hours or more. This hogs up a lot of my resources, and it means I can't run other apps very well during this time. So I'm wondering, does anyone know if it is possible to pause rendering and somehow resume it again later? I can't see any obvious way to do this, but it seems like a simple idea that should be possible - yet the only option on the VDub Status window is for "abort"... :(

Thanks for any help!

~LeoH:)

[Leak]

Originally posted by LeoH
So I'm wondering, does anyone know if it is possible to pause rendering and somehow resume it again later? I can't see any obvious way to do this, but it seems like a simple idea that should be possible - yet the only option on the VDub Status window is for "abort"... :(

Well, you could set VirtualDub's priority to "Idle" so it won't chew up CPU resources, but I guess you're more looking for a solution to completely close down VirtualDub and have it resume the next time you start is - the problem here is that this isn't supported by the codecs...

[LeoH]

Thanks Leak,

Yeah I'm looking for something to more or less shutdown VDubMod and resume later without having to start from the beginning again. I guess it does come down to the codecs... Hmm, oh well, I can always dream!

~Leo:)

[Brother John]

There are 2 priority settings: One for the encoding thread, which is controlled via the priority dropdown field in vdub. The second priority is for the whole vdub application, changeable via task manager (win2k/xp).

Set the application priority to "low" and vdub won't slow down your system, no matter what priority the encoding thread got.