On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:44, Azrael wrote:
> > My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I
> > believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make
> > sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles
> > should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them?
> >
> > many thanks
>
> Have you checked to make sure whatever it was you were trying to rip -
> the DVD, I'd assume, was clean? And the DVD drive is clean? (That's what
> caused me some grief until I realised the damn DVD I rented was a bit
> 'dirty')
The rip occured without problem. It was while the encoding process was
happening that the system hung - so not related to the dvd itself. Just
converting home movies aswell.. so no chance of it being any dvd
encryption playing me up either.
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