On Thu, Feb 28 2013, Matthias Fechner wrote:
I used gentoo without problems and now yavdr without problems. It never crashed so it is related to the version/distribution or to your hardware you are using.
You are probably right. But since the mplayer-plugin is so much better for me (it starts directly with the main-film of the DVD), I won't investigate further with the xineliboutput-plugin. (Though I still use it for TV-output).