[MPlayer-cygwin] [BUGREPORT] [NOVIRUS]MPlayer/MEncoderreproduciblecrash on

[Chris Taylor]

compn wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:38:37 -0500
> John Brown <johnbrown105 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Eureka!
>>
>>It seems that the problem was hyperthreading. When I disable it, MEncoder 
>>and MPlayer both work. When I enable it, they don't.
> 
> 
> 
> thank you for the bugreport and workaround! its important and hard to
> find out why a closed source software (realplayer codec) would be crashing...
> 
> i'm curious, is it difficult or easy to turn hyperthreading on/off?
> 
> -compn
> 

It's typically an option in the BIOS.. Where exactly it is varies, and 
it could be quite difficult on prebuilt machines like packard bells, as 
they tend to cripple the bios. Not saying it'd be impossible, but it 
could be considerably more difficult.

On a normal day, and for people on this list, odds are it's not 
particularly challenging though.

Chris

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