too many bugs

[zoltanzylox]

Major,
I am a registered customer, and have been using ffmpegx to convert avi soundtracks to mp2 and to mux mp2 and m2v files together as mpgs for DVD. These operations work most of the time. I say most because about every 3rd or 4th encode I either get a kernel panic (which forces me to shutdown my machine in the midst of other operations), or the mouse pointer locks up and my machine is completely inaccessible, again forcing me to restart.
I have a G4 dual 1.25 running 10.2.8. I have repaired permissions several times, I have perormed a fsck -y every time after the machine locks up. I have DiskWarrior as well.
What I want to know is-what happened to pre-emptive multitasking? OS X with its Unix underpinnings is supposed to be crash proof. FFMPEGX seems to be the only application I have that will kill my machine consistently, and frankly, I'm getting tired of having to clean up and restore. It's wasting a lot of valuable time. I started with version 0.0.7 and am now at 0.0.8d. I keep reading that the next version will be more stable. Can't you design this app so that if it does crash, it doesn't take out the machine? Everything else on my box runs fine.

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Sounds as if you either have a hardware problem somewhere or that you have a third party modification to OSX that is reacting negatively with some component of ffmpegx. let's hope it's the latter.

Some third party modifications to avoid using in any scenario (just to be safe) are haxies of any kind, theme changing utilities, or basically anything that modifies OSX at a system level in any way that Apple has not intended.

Forgive me if I have seemed to skirt around the possibility that ffmpegx is to blame, it's just that there have been no other reports of this type of destructive behavior regarding it. Please excuse me if I've missed them somehow.