[MEncoder-users] Can you slow down mencoder?

[Pete Davis]

>> Any number of things can cause "apparently random" crashes like that. 
>> Bad pointers being one of the more common. They seem random only 
>> because we
>
> That will not be random but deterministic.

I didn't say it's random, that's why I put it in quotes and said,
"apparently random." In other words, deterministic. But a bug in the code
wouldn't necessarily show up on the same frame number every time, it may
show up when there's some sort of unexpected and improperly handled
collision on a resource of some type that may not happen at precisely the
same time every time.

When you take into consideration that both instances were started by hand at
different offsets in time, each encoding a different file each time, there's
no reason I'd expect it to happen on the same frame.

> Again, I am completely positive that your crash is due to faulty
> hardware or buggy OS. It is unrelated to mencoder.
> 
> Rich

And again, all evidence to the contrary, I'm going to have to disagree.

And it's not as if mencoder is entirely bug free. I've had it crash for a
variety of reasons from various CVS updates I've done.

Pete