In some occasions a pause queue would make sense:
- reading from/writing to a network drive
- reading from/writing to a slow drive inside computer
To be able to temporarily work on another task on same drive/network location. What do you think?
Interesting idea, but unlikely that I’d implement it. At the moment there’s no bi-directional communication between the GUI & mkvmerge (which does the actual muxing), and that would be necessary to tell it to pause reliably.
What you can do today is to set all pending jobs to “start manually” in the job queue. That would cause the GUI not to process any further jobs after the current one finishes anymore.
In general it sounds like you’d be served well with lowering the priority of the programs in the preferences. That way both the CPU & the I/O priority will be lowered, and any other program you run in the foreground will take precendence over what MKVToolNix does.
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Thank you for your quick answer. I’ll try your suggestions. 