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
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