[MEncoder-users] Can you slow down mencoder?

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:45:57PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:08:37AM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
> > > What version of mencoder are you using?
> > >
> > > I believe 1.0pre7 has problem running multiple instances of mencoder
> > > simultaneously. I know it was periodically causing me problems to run
> > > multiple instances, but switching a more recent build (from CVS) fixed
> > that.
> > 
> > Huh? This is nonsense, they have no knowledge of one another..
> > 
> > Rich
> > 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> I'm aware the processes are isolated, but the fact remains that when running
> 2 or more instances of mencoder 1.0pre7, it was crashing periodically. It

This means you have a hardware problem, probably cpu overheating or
bad ram.

> only happened when I had 2 or more instances running and the problem went
> away when I upgraded later out of CVS.
> 
> I have no explanation for it.

See above. Random crash like that is ALWAYS caused by hardware
problems.

Rich