I’m partway through my current project, which is ripping all my DVDs to low-bitrate h264 so I can stream them to my netbook which is hooked up to my TV.
I’m encountering a real problem: The computer is randomly freezing up after a few hours of hard work. I’ve only seen it happening when ffmpeg is running.
I have the command “watch sensors” running in a konsole, and the temperatures are normal - this is not an overheating problem. The power supply is well and truly good enough to power my system even with both cores going like the clappers. At first I thought the problem was my overclock, but it just happened at stock speed too.
This system is locking up hard. The emergency keys don’t do anything, the keyboard lights don’t blink, and there’s nothing printed to the kernel log that suggests anything. Next stop: Running ffmpeg with “gnome-system-monitor” open to see if it’s got anything to do with memory use… I doubt it, but it’s the logical next course of action for me. I’ll also turn off the desktop-background-changing feature of KDE 4 in case that’s causing some sort of graphics card problem, although the Nvidia binary blob hasn’t given me kernel panics or X crashes since I upgraded to Intrepid.
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