[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder crashes entire system daily

[Tobias Diedrich]

Michael D. Spiceland wrote:
> I use mencoder to record tv shows from my v4l card.  Unfortunately, it
> crashes every 2/3 times during 30 minute shows. 

MPlayer is not the cause but the catalyst. Realtime encoding stresses
the system a lot and if it crashes the whole system it means that your
hardware is flaky. Maybe bad RAM chips or the CPU overheating...

-- 
Tobias