[MPlayer-users] mencoder crashes kernel

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:47:10PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 20:36, Duane Evenson wrote:
> > My kernel crashes whenever I run mencoder. It may not crash right away,
> > not even while mencoder is still running, but it crashes soon.
> > My mencoder command is:
> > mencoder -tv
> > driver=v4l2:buffersize=300:alsa:width=640:height=480:norm=NTSC:chanlist=us-cable:channel=8:audiorate=48000 
> > 
> > tv:// -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:v4mv -vf crop=608:464:16:6,pp=lb
> > -oac mp3lame -lameopts q=2 -quiet -endpos 60 -o test.avi;
> > 
> > The problem started after I upgraded from 2.4.20 to 2.6.x (I've tried
> > x=11, 12, 13, and 14). The problem presents using Fedora 4 precompiled
> > kernels as well as my own compiled kernels. I'm currently using MEncoder
> > dev-Fedora-GS-CVS-050904-14:36-4.0.1, and bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17). I have
> > a mostly Redhat Fedora 4 system.
> > 
> > Someone mentioned that this may be a problem between level 1 and level 2
> > in v4l. I don't know. It always seems that from the call trace section
> > of the log, the problem arises during memory page swapping.
> > 
> > Here's the log file from the time the system crashed. Note the time,
> > mencoder was running for about 7 minutes.
> > ============================================================================
> > Jan 12 21:07:15 dave kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > Jan 12 21:07:15 dave kernel: kernel BUG at include/linux/list.h:166!
> 
> Well, this is a kernel bug. I suspect it's related to v4l. We can't do anything

Either kernel bug or overclocked/overheating cpu, bad ram, etc.

Rich