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

[Diego Zuccato]

Gabucino wrote:

> > SW: Mandrake 8.0 heavily upgraded (f.e. gcc-3.0.3...), ex-latest
> That's the bug :) I could reproducably make a mandrake 8.0
> system _completely_ hang at a certain file when compiling sane-backend with
> gcc 2.ninetysix :) (downgrading to 2.95 helped:)
Using default kernel 2.4.x-mdk ? BTW, that compiler is known to be quite
buggy (even if, in my case, it compiled mplayer without problems).
Could you trace it down to some specific part ? Or you simply "solved"
downgrading the compiler ?

BYtE,
 Diego.