[x265] FR: Postpone Windows 10 update reboots during encodes by signaling "busy"?

[Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer]

No opinion yet?


Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer schrieb am 13.06.2018 um 08:35:
> Request by 'Stereodude' in the doom9 forum:
> 
> https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1844407#post1844407
> 
> +----
> Is there any way to x265 to let Windows know that it's busy encoding to 
> prevent a Windows update from rebooting the PC during an encode? I 
> thought I read before that there's a way for an application to let the 
> OS know it's "busy" so that it won't reboot while the application is 
> crunching away.
> 
> Currently Windows 10 will happily reboot mid x264 or x265 encode even if 
> the CPU is pegged at 100%.
> +----
> 
> I wonder if you could use the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate function to 
> postpone it:
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376877%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 
> 
> 
> And which window handle would you use for a CLI application?
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