[MPlayer-users] mplayer-0.60pre2 & multiple lockups

[war war]

Every single time I get to a certain part of a
piece of this movie, my ENTIRE box freezes up.
I also have another machine, it has also frozen
up while watching a different movie (MPEG-1).
What's going on?  Mplayer used to be stable!

Machine information:

System Hardware:
    CPU Type: Pentium III
   CPU Speed: 868.653 MHz
        Disk: IBM-DTLA-305040
         Ram: 1005 MB
        Swap: 2000 MB

System Software:
Distribution: Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
   audiofile: 0.2.1
    autoconf: 2.52
     autogen: 5.2.14
    automake: 1.5
    binutils: 2.11.2
   e2fsprogs: 1.23
      esound: 0.2.22
         gcc: 2.95.3
     gettext: 0.10.40
       glibc: 2.2.4
        glib: 1.2.10
  gnome-libs: 1.2.13
         gtk: 1.2.10
       imlib: 1.9.11
      kernel: 2.4.17
     libtool: 1.4.2
        make: 3.79.1
    modutils: 2.4.6
     openssl: 0.9.6c
       orbit: 0.5.8
   orbit-idl: 0.6.8
        perl: 5.6.1
          qt: command
         rpm: 4.0.3
         sdl: 1.2.3
  util-linux: 2.11f
     xfree86: 4.1.0
        xml2: 2.4.12
         xml: 1.8.16