[MPlayer-users] Re: sudden crashes

[Tobias Diedrich]

Tate Austin wrote:

> I have been installing the various dependencies that come with VLC and
> now mplayer will crash my entire computer within about about 20
> minutes of playback.  It seems to play DVDs with no lockups, but divx
> for example causes it to lock up in about 20-30 minutes of playback
> guaranteed.  Is this a common occurence when a package mplayer is
> dependent on gets a version upgrade?  Do I need to reinstall mplayer,
> or is the dependency thing not a viable explanation?

Is this "crashing" a hard lockup of the machine (i.e. not pingable from
another system)?
If so, then it's most likely a hardware problem or maybe a kernel
problem, because a userspace program like mplayer cannot
crash your system unless the kernel or your hardware is buggy.

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