Way to encode long h264 job a bit at a time?

[mahsah]

I hope I can explain this correctly.

I have an Avisynth script I would like to encode to h264. Since there is some heavy filtering being done (and it is hidef to begin with) it only encodes at about 2 frames per second. I can obviously run the first and second encoding passes at seperate times, but is there a way so that I can tell the encoder to "Pause", close it, and resume from where I left off?

Or would the best option be to split the video into segments, encode them, and rejoin them later?

[Irakli]

Hi, mahsah

Well, I know that MeGUI has 'Pause' button which easily pauses the encoding process

Sometimes I use this button to pause encoding and then put computer in hibernating mode. I always pause encoding before hibernating computer (just for the sence of safety).

However, I think that it is safe to hibernate computer without pausing encoding (correct me somebody if I am wrong).

[mahsah]

Thanks.

Although I wish there was a way for it to auto-pause and hibernate...