[MPlayer-users] why my mplayer hangs?

[YP]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:22:36PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> Try to rule out the affected systems. try -nosound, try -vo null.

It of course works with -vo null

> AFAIK sb emu10k are quite well supported, 

That's right; btw fyi I run 3 pcs with exactly the same SB Live 5.1 emu10k1,
sound is not a problem. 

>so it is unlikely, the intel
> videocards are quite common cause of problems (second after ati video
> cards).  it is also possible that win32 loader to allow memory
> corruption caused by the binary codec (most wmv require them for
> decoding).
> 
> Having kernel with magic sysreq key is bonus, use it (if it works).

Is it available as separate .deb package for Debian Etch ?

> (keyboard leds should flash on kernel panic, at least on ps/2
> keyboards).

It's an usb kbd.
 
> The recent 2.6.x kernels support kexec startup of emergency
> -backup-kernel after kernel panic, that allows producing proper
> bugreport to the kernel people. Read the
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.

OK I'll see in it; thanx for your answer.

Y P