On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 07:51 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2005 05:23, Xiaotian Sun wrote: > > I tried this -V xshm on another DVD. When played for about 1 hour, it > > froze the computer again. Really don't know what's going on. > > This may not be easy to find. > Is your system stable using other application or do you also have an > occasional crash without using video playing ? > If so, perhaps it's a memory problem. You could check your CAS settings in the > bios to see if they're perhaps set to critical for your memory. > > you can also try to monitor your log files while playing DVD. perhaps > something already happens before the crash. > > Regards, > Marcel > I have the same problem with some titles but not with others: my AMD64 with 1GB RAM crash after perfectly playing a DVD for about one hour. The same happens when a switch to windows media player -dual boot system- most of the time at the same chapter of the movie. In my case, I think the problem is in the DVD -mostly replicas-, may be some kind of encrypted code to avoid copying. Leopoldo Olmos
