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

[Corey Hickey]

Diego Zuccato wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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...

If that happens, it shouldn't hang the entire system, though, should it? 
   I couldn't type, couldn't move the mouse pointer, coudn't ping the 
machine.... In any case, I'm not particularly worried yet. That's the 
only failure I've had, with dozens of rip initiations on that particular 
DVD disk.