[Ffmpeg-devel] Bizarre build problem of the day (original) (raw)

William Beebe wbeebe
Fri Feb 24 04:16:34 CET 2006

No. As I stated earlier, it only occurs at the tail end of configuration. After a successful configuration it builds, links, and runs just fine.

On 2/23/06, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:

2006/2/23, William Beebe : > First, the background. > System: > Windows XP SP2, running MinGW and MSys. > ffmpeg from cvs, checked out Wednesday, 2/22/2006. > > Symptom: > Changing directory to ffmpeg and running configure under MSys caused > the system to totally lock up, requiring a hard shutdown (hold the > power button down for 5 seconds on the notebook). > > Solution: > For whatever reason, a process named LVPrcSrv took over 99% of the > processor after "Creating config.mak and config.h..." was displayed > during the run of configure. This was discovered from watching Windows > Task Manager during a run. LVPrcSrv is a Logitech QuickCam process > that is automatically started during system startup and is supposed to > run in the background. I was able to completely run configure if I > killed LVPrcSrv before starting configure. This is the first time this > has occurred, and the problem only occurs with this combination of > ffmpeg, MinGW/MSys, and configure. I successfully build under > MinGW/MSys without problems with other software projects with this > same combination. > > I'm not pointing any fingers at anybody, unless you want to point at > Windows on general principal. I just find this whole thing weird.

Are you sure this is not some kind of rootkit? There wes already one from Sony...

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