Watching movies freezes computer
I've been plagued by this problem for quite a long time. After 5-45 minutes of watching a movie on my box, playback stops and X totally locks up. Keyboard and all. The only way to correct this problem is to ssh in from another box, kill the X process, and start it again.
I get this problem in both mplayer and gxine.
Here's what I've tried:
1) In mplayer, using different -vo options to swithc it
2) Disabeling audio with -ao null
I've got an nvidia card with the latest drivers. Somebody told me to try to start X with the vesa driver, but it won't work on my box.
Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I'd really like to be able to watch movies on my new athlon64 box...
P.S. Fullscreen games work just fine
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