[MPlayer-users] mencoder often COMPLETLY locks up my machine

[Diego Zuccato]

Corey Hickey wrote:

> May 17 04:56:25 bugfood kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0,
> CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00 40 00
> May 17 04:56:25 bugfood kernel: Current sd0b:01: sense key Medium Error
> May 17 04:56:25 bugfood kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 64
Seems your reader have some troubles with that CD. If you wait enough,
it gives up (might require quite a long time).
If you have enough free space, you can rip the entire track on hdd, and
then encode it. Maybe it's better if you first set read speed at a low
value using hdparm...

> I don't know if this was a software problem in the SCSI emulation or a
> hardware problem somewhere in IDE. In any case, this is the first and
> only crash using mplayer/mencoder that way.
Usually, that message is due to a poorly written CD (cheap support, high
burning speed or shitty reader -- like the one in my laptop!).

BYtE,
 Diego.