[MPlayer-users] How to pause mencoder

Mark Zealey mark at zealey.org
Wed Dec 24 02:10:29 CET 2003


try renicing the process to some low priority like 19 when you want to use the
computer and then lowering the priority back to 0 when you want it to get a fair
share...

use the renice command ie:
renice 19 `pidof mencoder`

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:39:05PM +0100, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Le mar 23/12/2003 ?? 22:37, Graham Bleach a ??crit :
> > Ignore my other reply. Use [Ctrl-Z] or kill -STOP 
> 
> Thanks for the hint... and then how do I tell mencoder to restart the
> encoding where it paused?
> (btw Tarrass, the reason I want to pause the encoding of a movie is to
> make my computer more responsive when I have to do stuff, and let it
> restart the process when I go away...)
> Thanks,
> 
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> Alexandre Aractingi <aaractingi at libertysurf.fr>
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