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

[Diego Zuccato]

Arpi wrote:

> try to play with mencoder's options, try to find which one caus ethe lock
> if yo uencode directly from dvd/cd, try to copy stream to hdd and encode
> from them.
The first encode was from cd: it locked, but I thought it was the
"usual" problem with my shitty cd reader. Had no time to wait for
timeouts, and rebooted. Then ripped with mplayer to file.vcd -- all ok.
Then encoded the first time, and all was ok, except that the avi file
was bigger than the .vcd (about 10 megs more...). So I tried again with
a lower bitrate and got the second lock.
> tro -o /dev/null, maybe disk out problem... etc
Have enough disk free for at least 4 or 5 outfiles... df never got near
0...

> try other codecs, no audio or no video encoding etc
I'll try these too.
But I suspect that the source file is in some way responsible... It's a
strange file:
1) starts with a lot of 0x00
2) it's a slideshow (images from a digital camera)
Maybe just this kind of file can trigger strange behaviours ?

BTW, even with br=200 I still get an avi bigger than the source... Mah !

What I really don't understand is why it locks only sometimes, even with
the really same command line !

> or even 'mencoder -help' cause hangup for you?
Nope. It could have simplified tracing the problem...

BYtE,
 Diego.