Hi, I'm having a really hard time trying to encode ogg files. Whenever I use oggenc the whole machine completely freezes. I have tried oggenc both as a user and root with the same results. If i do something like: oggenc -q 5 track5.wav -o track5.ogg , it starts off fine, but always freezes the machine after a couple of seconds. After rebooting the machine, I have noticed that the track5.ogg output file has never been created. I have tried using the rpms off the CD, the rpms from vorbis.com and the .tar.gz files from vorbis.com, but get the same result all the time. I have also tried using oggenc via other apps, eg: Grip, abcde, ripit etc, but the same thing happens every time. Incedentaly, the other ogg tools seem to work fine, eg ogginfo The really annoying thing is that I had this working fine a couple of weeks ago, but I reinstalled SuSE and now it won't work. I have even tried changing the acpi and apm options in grub, and also using the failsafe option in grub, but no change My system: SuSE 8.1 oggenc 1.0 (CD version) /dev/hda3 9.0G 4.0G 5.1G 45% / /dev/hdb1 38G 4.3G 33G 12% /data Duron 1200, 256 MB I can't find anything on google about complete system freezes from oggenc, so if someone has even the vaguest idea about what could be wrong, I'd be very grateful. Nik