[MPlayer-users] mplayer frosen after 5 hours of playing

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Konrad Materka wrote:
> Dnia 18-04-2005, pon o godzinie 09:00 -0700, RC napisa?(a):
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:53:44 +0200
> > "Maxipoint Rep Office" <maxipoint at st.htnet.hr> wrote:
> > 
> > > After 5-6 hours of playing PC was be frosen.. mplayer process is on
> > > 99% and video stay stop on TV screen, and I must restart PC
> > 
> > First off, are you running mplayer as root?  If you are, you shouldn't
> > be (unless you have a very good reason to require it).  If you're not,
> > then it's obviously not a problem with mplayer, as no non-root program
> > should be able to crash a system.
> 
> What about memory leaks? I got hangs after 2 hours of movie using
> gmplayer (pre6). Maybe he had the same problem?

A memory leak in a userspace program cannot crash the system. This is
not windows...

Rich