[MPlayer-users] Total Freeze of Mplayer with one movie

[RC]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:59:01 +0800
Uwe Dippel <udippel at uniten.edu.my> wrote:

> It freezes the whole machine, mouse pointer disappears.

If you're running MPlayer as root...  Don't.

If you're not running MPlayer as root, there's no way it can possibly
freeze the system...  it has to be the result of a bug in the kernel,
X11, hardware problems, etc.