Hi! I need help in finding a solution to avoid system freezes while playing movies with mplayer. The freeze is reproduceable, but though it doesn't occur with any video, I can't figure out the problem. It is always the same: I start playing the file an after two or three seconds, the whole system freezes. No network connection, no sysrq keys. Usually I run mplayer using -vo xv and -ao oss, but the freeze does also occur using -ao null and -vo x11 or sdl. One file is played used this videocodec: [mpegpes] vfm:mpegpes (Mpeg PES output (.mpg or Dxr3/DVB card)) Another one is player using libavcodec's Sorenson1 feature: [ffsvq1] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v1) So why am I sending this to mplayer-users and not to nvidia or xfree86? The system crashes only using mplayer. I can play the files without problems using KDE's xine-based noatun. I watched the logfiles in /var/log/syslog but could not find anything helpful I could post here, so I give you the information as requested in DOCS/bugreports.html - Debian unstable - Linux 2.4.20 - 1102984 2003-01-21 23:15 /lib/libc-2.3.1.so 563068 2002-02-04 22:30 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46 -XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5 20030122074040) - gcc version 3.2.2 20030131 (Debian prerelease) - GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.16 20021126 Debian GNU/Linux - GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.16 20021126 Debian GNU/Linux - fullscreen or not doesn't matter. the problem occurs in both modes - gui seems not to matter. the problem occurs in both modes - Intel Pentium 3 with 500Mhz - Nvidia Geforce2 MX with Nvidia binary driver version 1.0.4191 - SBLive! with up-to-date driver from oss.creative.com MPlayer itself is today's CVS checkout, compiled with "--enable-gui --language=de --with-reallibdir=/usr/lib/win32". Do you need a copy of one of the files for testing? I don't have access to a public ftp or something, but problably I could find one if it's needed. I hope I didn't forget any important information in this mail... regards, Florian -- There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.