Re: Playing DVD freezes the computer

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On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:04 pm, Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I never had this problem before.  But yesterday when I was watching a
> DVD on my FC3 box using xine 0.99.3, suddenly in the middle of
> playback, the whole computer froze: no response to keyboard, mouse, or
> remote log in.  I had to do a hard reset.
>
> Then I switch mplayer, it was fine for like 10 minutes, then the
> computer froze again.
>
> I couldn't figure out what went wrong.  There's nothing obviously
> wrong in the log.

Could it be a hardware problem?  Maybe an overheated power supply?  Or maybe 
bad memory.  I had a Windows box once that would freeze if I opened too many 
applications at one time.  Turned out to be a faulty memory chip.

You might try memtest86

>
> Another question, what is the difference between libdvdcss and
> libdvdcss2?  I have libdvdcss-1.2.8 installed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xiaotian

-- 
Joe Carsto
Murfreesboro, TN  USA


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