Pause or stop/resume for CCE encoding

[alexVS]

Hello!
I have one-cored processor, so when I start encoding with CCE via avisynth, my computer becomes unavalble for me. CPU is fully occupied by CCE encoding, that's an understandable thing.

But sometimes I need to make some important work. How can I pause CCE during encoding? Or even better stop encoding at some point and resume later, may be the next day.

If it's impossible to interrupt CCE, at least how can I free up some CPU resourses for doing some emergency work?

[kumi]

You can suspend any process with http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx (right-click | suspend)


This is what I use when I want to temporarily stop a program from chewing up resources or bandwidth, but don't want to actually shut the program off.

[alexVS]

Is this procedure of temporary stopping correct?
I mean won't it cause errors in video stream?

[Mtz]

Did you tried to decrease the CCE priority from task manager? For me, this is working.

enjoy,
Mtz

[kumi]

@alexVS: It's never caused me any problems, and I use it a lot (not with CCE but with HC.)

And as Mtz says, setting CCE priority to Idle is just as good, provided you don't have other Idle procs competing for CPU time.