Pause and restart renders

[mark.linthicum]

Because renders take so long, it would be nice to be able to pause a render and restart it even after a restart, I have to do other things with my computer causing renders to fail. it would be helpful to be able to stop and continue a render.

[lhkjacky (Jacky)]

Pause/Resume processing

Users should be able to pause processing and close the app. The next time they open the app, they should be able to resume processing from were they left off. Users should also be able to resume processing the batch/video if the app crashes.

Pause processing, and resume even after shutdown

I know many have asked for a pausing feature but I’d like to ask that one be added that will save the progress of the program even if the computer is shut down. I’m 18 just to be clear and I live in a small house with my parents and sister so the noise from the computer running the program is unbearable at night and with processing often taking over 15 hours it would be really nice to be able to pause the processing and be able to save the progress even after shutting down the machine for the n…

Please add a PAUSE button (yes, I know it's already been suggested)

But apparently, it needs to be mentioned AGAIN. Good grief, is it THAT hard to add a pause button? Really?

[mark.linthicum]

I would like to see this as well, I know it is not simple, any changes in code can create unwanted side effects but this feature is important and I think worth it.

[guilherme.bregolin]

What I’ve been doing to pause the rendering process is use Process Explorer and suspending the ffmpeg.exe process, then resuming it. On my tests so far it seems to work really well, no crashes, but use with caution. That is for Windows users, of course.

On Mac, you can open your terminal and do the same:
ps aux | grep ffmpeg - take note of the PID of the process
kill -SIGSTOP PID - to pause the process
kill -SIGCONT PID - to resume the process

[mark.linthicum]

@mark.linthicum

, I have to do other things with my computer causing renders to fail. it would be helpful to be able to stop and continue a render

Good to know it is possible, just need to implement a button on the interface.