[MEncoder-users] Can you slow down mencoder?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:59:37AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Friday 19 August 2005 05:45, Pete Davis wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > only happened when I had 2 or more instances running and the problem went
> > away when I upgraded later out of CVS.
> 
> Running two instances in the same directory when doing a 2 pass encoding, or
> doing 2 pass divtc, would be a Bad Idea(TM).

Well yes, I would hope he wasn't doing this... :)

Rich