kino "crash" - looses monitor/X

Hi

Once in a while I edit some video on my arch (used to be ubuntu) laptop, 
and when I do I use kino. Yesterday I started a new project, with about 
30mins of video from my Canon HF200 (mts files converted to dv with 
ffmpeg). Once in a while (every 10 mins or so) kino "crashed", meaning 
the screen went black, and the external monitor lost its signal, but I 
could hear the audio of the video still playing. I found no way to get 
in contact with the laptop, so I had to do kill it with the power 
button. I'm not sure exactly what I did at the time of the crash, but I 
was doing alot of split/join scenes. Now I managed to get all the 
splits/joins done, and kino seems stable again.

Any idea what could be going on here? Of course I'd be happy to supply 
any info needed to investigate the problem!

NB: I just had the idea to ssh into the laptop from another laptop, 
could give usefull info, plus possibly get the laptop going again 
without the need for a hard reset, will report back if I get a crash, 
and learn something over ssh...

NB2: This mailinglist seems very dead + the latest news on 
http://www.kinodv.org/ is from 26.05.2010. Is the kino project dead?

-- 
Atte

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