[MEncoder-users] [SOLVED] Video from JPG Files Problem

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:56:28 -0500
"Matt Malone" <m_j_malone at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I hard-crashed my Linux box with mencoder trying to make a .mpg file,
>  I decided I did not have  the hair to spare and I was pushing my luck
>  with the journalling in the ext3  filesystem. 

It's just simply poor judgement to run programs as root if not
absolutely necessary.  And running under a normal user account, there's
no way any program can crash the system.