[MPlayer-users] mencoder, x264 and freeze

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:54:57PM +0100, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> I recently got a new SVN version of mplayer, which needed a fresh git
> pull of x264 (which is now libx264.so.79).
> 
> After building mencoder, and running the following line, mencoder runs
> for about 10 minutes or a bit more, then stops and does nothing, CPU
> usage is at 0%, ps ax shows 'Sl+' or 'Sl' as status, nothing else. I
> cannot press Ctrl+C, only killing it (with SIGKILL) will terminate
> mencoder, SIGTERM (and of course SIGINT) does nothing.

This seems to be a known issue with current x264, it probably is already
analyzed and hopefully soon will be fixed.