Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

John Richard Smith Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:40:43 -0700

Azrael wrote:

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

if you do in a terminal,
mplayer -v
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale

this tells which version you have installed.
Mencoder comes packaged with mplayer so it has the same version number.

I settled on the above version because it ripped and encoded without crashing the entire OS.

bear in mind that it may all be due to running your system, ie, cpu, memory, close to maximum overclocking , that there is no room for overload, and ripping and encoding dvd's is one hell of big demand on everything, so I tend to run at night when I'm asleep. But for some reason I had the same problem as you describe and cured it by going back to the above version, which is not the latest . I see you have the

MPlayer 0.90-3.2.3

which is supposed to be stable, but don't bank on it.

john

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