[MEncoder-users] Can you slow down mencoder?

[Raphael]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:45:57PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:08:37AM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
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>>>>What version of mencoder are you using?
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>>>>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
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>>>that.
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>>>Huh? This is nonsense, they have no knowledge of one another..
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>>>Rich
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>>Rich,
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>>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
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>This means you have a hardware problem, probably cpu overheating or
>bad ram.
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>>only happened when I had 2 or more instances running and the problem went
>>away when I upgraded later out of CVS.
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>>I have no explanation for it.
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>See above. Random crash like that is ALWAYS caused by hardware
>problems.
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>Rich
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Actually I have also noticed that mplayer will often crash on a film if 
"mplayer *" is chosen where it can play each film just fine if they are 
played individually (i.e. mplayer film1..pause...mplayer 
film2...pause..etc.). Don't know if this is relevant.

Just my 2.5 cents (adjusted for inflation).

Raphael