Pausing a process in Windows

Question

I\'m making a nice little Python GUI frontend for ffmpeg on Windows (one that is specifically designed to convert videos to an iPhone-friendly format and automatically impor

Answer 1

You can easily do this by using psutil ( https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil ):

import psutil
pid = 1034  # replace this with the pid of your process
p = psutil.Process(pid)
p.suspend()

...to resume it:

p.resume()

Internally this is implemented in C by using SuspendThread() and ResumeThread() Windows system calls.