Is it possible to Pause Encoding in VDub?

[arthurfent2k]

Hi!
Maybe a dumb Question, but I just wondered if this is possible. I´m quite enerved by waiting 5 Hours for my Movie to complete when all I want is to quickly burn a CD etc.

In TMPG (or was it Flask?) there is a Pause-Function to stop encooding, use your PC for whatever you need to do and then resume the Encoding.

I just noticed that in VDub´s Job-Control there are 2 Buttons while Encoding: Stop and Abort. I thought the "Sop" might be something to Stop-and-Resume, but when I hit Stop nothing happens. The Stop Button is greyed out. Nothing else. So, what is it good for? Is there a Stop-Resume-Function in VDub?

So long

ArthurDent2k

[hakko504]

When you hit stop, then the encoding will stop after the current job is finished. This may take a while. ;)

So, NO, there isn't a 'pause' function as such in VD. What you can do is to call up the status window, (switch to VD's main window, click on 'Dub in progress' and select 'show status window') and select process priority 'IDLE'. Now you can use your computer normally, while VD continues the encoding with whatever process power that's left. There maybe some issues with incompatibilities between programs and from my own experiences I can say that 1) Surfing the net has never been a problem. 2) Extensive disk usage, especially the ones VD is acessing IS a problem. I use a A7V MB with Athlon1100 and Win98SE.

[arthurfent2k]

Thanks for the quick answer!

So, this explains why VDub works on after hitting the Stop Button... hmm.But with VDub working with Idle Priority in the Backround, I´m afraid that there might be some corruption in the Output-File when I use the Computer otherwise... once experienced bad Quality-/frozen-Frames when I used my PC while VDub worked. Whas this just coincidence or can´t VDub work correctly when "sharing" CPU-Power and HD-Access (Think that´s the Thing you described in 2.)?

Have about the Same System as you, Athlon 900@1133 and an A7V on WinXP
Thanks

ArthurDent2k

[Doom9]

90% of my encoding time happens while I'm using the pc otherwise. Usually working with a html editor, surfing the web, emailing or chatting.. but every once in a while I burn a CD, rar hundreds of megs or even play a 3d game... and I have yet to have a single problem. The key issue here is to have enough memory for all the applications (256 is an absolute minimum.. 512 is much better.. you'll have a hard time filling that up unless you work with huge uncompressed gfx files) and use a stable OS. That means W2K or WinXP...

[arthurfent2k]

Oh, Word from the Master himself *gg*

Thanx for the Answer. I have 384 MB Ram and it´s possible to work while encoding... I just worried about the Output-File being corrupted when another App uses the HD VDub is working on.
Thin I´ll have to try *g*

Thanks

ArthurDent2k

[hakko504]

@arthurfent2k

Don't overclock when you encode. This is likely to create problems as the Athlon gets VERY hot. It's OK to overclock for gamers that need maximum capacity during short stints but also have periods of almost idle. When you encode video the processor will be at maximum for hours and hours and this will create problems, if nothing else, then it will shorten the lifetime of the processor and you will be forced to replace it much faster than you wanted.


Sidenote, I installed Win2k yesterday and I will switch all future encoding and video apps to that OS and only keep the games under Win98SE.

[Doom9]

@hakko: pleas re-up your avatar.. it doesn't show.

And.. unless you play really old dos games W2K has no problem with games.. Once I did the switch about 1month after W2K was released I started playing all my games on W2K, without any problems. There have been comparisons @ anandtech that showed that the performance difference between W98SE/WinME and W2K was minimal when you use the latest drivers, and in case of XP the XP drivers do now beat their W9x counterpart

[hakko504]

@doom9

Avatar seems to work now. And I am going to try to get rid of Win98 completely.

[FactorM]

But time has come, where games don't support win2k anymore e.g. dark age of camelot, which crashs very often.

[Doom9]

could be that the game requires patching? I had several games that didn't work in W2K before I installed the latest patch for the respective game... same would probably apply to WinXP. But there's another trick: the appcompat tool .. just make the stupid game think it's running in W98 and everything will be fine.

[arthurfent2k]

@Hakko504:

That´s OK, I´ve good cooling inside so it doesn´t overheat that much... and I plan to replace my CPU in 6 Weeks, so I think it should do until then, works overclocked for 4 Months now ;-)

@Doom9: Some Games indeed need Patches to work under 2000/XP, this was the Case for NFS4 on my PC... but forget the Compat-Tool, it only helps when the Install Routine detects the System and must be tricked into believing it´s 95/98/ME. If the Game itself has Problems with 2000/XP then you have to search for Patches. If there are none... Bad Luck *gg*

But for newer Games, encoding and everything else that needs stability XP is the choice IMO.

[FactorM]

@doom9

the game patches itself automatically and the developer also sais, that win2k is not supported.