>>Out of curiosity, did you ever happen
>>to check whether the undersized files were actually encoded all the way to
>>the end?
>
>Yes, they were.
>
>I do have some other points of interest though. I noticed after encoding
>had finished, if I restarted my machine, it would refuse to boot into XP at
>all! The windows logo would come up for a while, but then the screen would
>go black, with no graphical login screen appearing.
>
>When I tried the same with Fedora, althouh it booted up fine, I observed
>that programs seemed to be crashing very often, and some refusing to run,
>e.g. Xine, which I was trying to play the undersized output files with.
That's certainly a sign of a malfunctioning CPU. I'm surprised
transcode didn't suffer the same fate, but I suppose an overheating CPU
has all sorts of failure modes. <shrug>
--Andrew Church
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