[MPlayer-users] Things (artifacts?) appearing in output and input - Help!

[Corey Hickey]

rcooley wrote:

>>The system usually crunches SETI at Home without any problems.  No seg
>>faults, nothing.
> 
> It's quite possible to have a processor with more subtle problems than
> regular faults...  Maybe it only fails on MMX/SSE instructions.
> 

I've loosely noticed that when my system is overclocked a little too
much or just too hot, mencoder crashes whereas everything else works
fine.

I don't know if this will help much, but have you tried underclocking
your system?

-Corey