How to stop and resume DVD2SVCD?

[pityu]

Hello,
My PC is very noisy and it runs in my bedroom. If it works I cannot sleep. To complete a whole DVD2SVCD process I need around 20 hours per DVD. I read that the "Recover" function might be used to continue DVD2SVCD process after a crash. I do not want to deliberately crash it to be able to continue.
I would like to stop DVD2SVCD (and switch off PC) when I go to bed and later I would like to make DVD2SVCD to resume from the point where it was stopped.
So how to stop and resume safely? Click on x somewhere, hit Cntrl Alt Del or else better?
This could be interesting I suppose for others too.
How to do the procedure safely, please give some detail...
Thaks a lot.

[pacohaas]

basically you can stop it anywhere, but resuming starts at the beginning of the stage it was last performing. I'm guessing your 20 hr process is the video encoding, there's no way to stop this in the middle and resume later since the encoders(TMPG and CCE) don't support this.

If you are doing multi-pass CCE, you might get away with stopping after the first(analysis) pass, then recovering from there since CCE does support this, but the final pass is the one that really takes a long time.

[UltimateDBZ]

As a search would have revealed, my method in your same instance (computer in my room, noisy, can't sleep with it running) is to Hibernate the computer, or just put it in standby mode while you're sleeping. I've never had trouble with it...

[pityu]

Yes... I searched for "Recover" and lost my way. Hibernate should be the right term to search for now I know.
I am sorry, but it is interesting to understand what Recover can do...
Really thank you and dont be too:angry:

[UltimateDBZ]

Nah, I'm not angry at ya, far from it in fact :) Just pointing out that the search is a great timesaver.

Good luck!

[pityu]

We are so lucky.
We can use HIBERNATing PC and next day continue where we stopped.
Using CCE the Time left data is a little bit confused after wake up from hibernation. Right before hibernating I had 3 hours 10 minutes left and right after waking up the PC I realised CCE had more than 7 hours left. But it was not true. It finished after around 3 hours.
Hibernation does not always work.
Try to run PowerDVD to play a DVD from your hard drive. During the movie hibernate the PC. Wake up your PC and see what happens. NOTHING. The movie is shot down.
We are lucky that DVD2SVCD survive the hibernation.
Thanks for that DVD2SVCD.

[UltimateDBZ]

Yeh, CCE (and most other programs as well) think they have been running the entire time you've been hibernated, but obviously no processing is being done in hibernation, so the time elapsed, time remaining, and speed values are all messed up, but luckily the output is safe and sound :)

[mrbass]

this is semi-related (ok maybe not..who knows)
I pause it sometimes if I'm batch encoding say 4 or 5 dvds. When it hits the bbmpeg part you can hit 'Pause' and 'Resume' while it's muxing. I do this sometimes to check the result of the previous encode and sometimes burn the images and free up hd space. Then let it resume.

[Boulder]

Is it possible (=useful in this case) to stop CCE for example after it has completed the first or second actual encoding pass and then continue from there the next day? I thought that CCE saves the VAF file each time it completes one pass and that you could actually do as many passes as you wish by simply reusing the VAF file.

[Turbinator]

Originally posted by pityu
Hello,
My PC is very noisy and it runs in my bedroom. If it works I cannot sleep. To complete a whole DVD2SVCD process I need around 20 hours per DVD. I read that the "Recover" function might be used to continue DVD2SVCD process after a crash. I do not want to deliberately crash

That's too bad, because the best time to let DVD2SVCD run is while you're sleeping!

Turby

[UltimateDBZ]

Originally posted by Boulder
Is it possible (=useful in this case) to stop CCE for example after it has completed the first or second actual encoding pass and then continue from there the next day? I thought that CCE saves the VAF file each time it completes one pass and that you could actually do as many passes as you wish by simply reusing the VAF file. You can technically stop CCE after the first pass (the VAF file pass) and resume video encoding and reuse the created VAF file. However, this has been the cause of some problems in recent times, as a search will reveal. You cannot stop CCE at any other time than this, and it is not advised that you stop CCE at all.