On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:17, John Richard Smith wrote: > Azrael wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:44, Azrael wrote: > >> > >> > >>>My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I > >>>believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make > >>>sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles > >>>should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them? > >>> > >>>many thanks > >>> > >>> > >>Have you checked to make sure whatever it was you were trying to rip - > >>the DVD, I'd assume, was clean? And the DVD drive is clean? (That's what > >>caused me some grief until I realised the damn DVD I rented was a bit > >>'dirty') > >> > >> > > > >The rip occured without problem. It was while the encoding process was > >happening that the system hung - so not related to the dvd itself. Just > >converting home movies aswell.. so no chance of it being any dvd > >encryption playing me up either. > > > > > > > > > > > Are you using mencoder for the encoding. > I have had some problems with the more recent cvs versions and have had > to go back to an earlier mplayer install. I kept having stalls during > the rip/encoding which I do as one operation. > > John
I believe it is mencoder yes... not sure what version, but using dvdrip version 0.50.13 and MPlayer 0.90-3.2.3 -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002
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