[MPlayer-users] bugreport: mencoder segfaults

[Bastian]

Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2001 20:22 schrieben Sie:
> But mencoder is simple, linear application, each run of it is the same,
> all bits of resulting file will be the same. if it randomly crashes, it
> must be hardware related. bad hdd (i mean bus errors between disk and
> controller, usual with high-speed dma stuff), bad memory (very common,
> especially if you have different modules in your MB), bad cpu (i've seen
> broken k6 cpu some months ago, everything worked very well but notepad.exe
> crashed, even not randomly. after about 3 reinstall for windows we replaced
> cpu and problem disappeared... no one thought it's cpu failure but it was.)
> or simply bad day :)

i agree with you that in such a linear processing random crashes are really 
unexpected. i'll run some low level check utils, thank you all for now and 
will come back if every damn test says my "hardware is perfect" ;)

Bastian