> >I got past this with "MALLOC_CHECK_=1" > Profuse apologies. Better to correct myself now, than mislead some poor newbie soul later.
I set the MALLOC_CHECK_ variable to "0", not "1", for the glibc mess to go away. Although, i must say, even with the variable set to "0" i got the error messages a few times, but it was more like a non-fatal warning, with transcode carrying on with its task. Andrew