If I press Stop on a project encoding (40 hours remaining...), can I continue it later or something from where I left off? I'd try it myself, but I'm already 10% done and that took like half the day already.
Fast. Doing things like playing games, watching movies, etc. while it's encoding slows it down a lot though. But since it took so long for a reply, I just let it go without stopping/pausing and it worked.
Holy be-jesus that's a long time. I'm guessing you may be doing other things whilst the encoding is taking place. Sounds like your processor isn't hyperthreading. Even if the processor does have this technology, I wouldn't suggest doing anything during any kind of encode, conversion, compilation or creation. Only going to be that much longer for you in the long run. What are the specs on the system?
On my system it takes maybe 3 hours to encode a 2 Hour Movie on High Quality useing tmpgenc...If I use CCE It takes me Less than an hour.... Yes you can Sort of Stop encodeing and resume...What you can do is click the "Stop" button and then tmpgenc will ask you if you really want to cancel encodeing and You just don"t answer and when you are read to start encodeing again you just Click "No" and it will resume encodeing again but you can not Shut the program down and resume encodeing.... Cheers
I wouldn't be able to deal with that kind of timeframe for the encode of a simple DVD, but then again, I only choose main movie when I create mine. I'd be pulling my eye brows out.