MP4 audio dropout

[Deathtongue]

I'm having an interesting problem running VLC 0.8.1 on Mac OSX 10.2.8 on a 400MHZ G4. Generally about five to ten minutes through any mp4 video file (specifically, I've been viewing downloads from http://www.archive.org) I lose audio. If I re-open the file and skip to the spot where I lost audio, the audio is there. But it drops out again after another minute or so. No synch problems, no glitches, just a total dropout.

The machine is slow, but there's plenty of CPU% left over and plenty of memory.

Any thoughts?

[InsaneDane]

I've got the same problem... but with WinXP an Athlon 1400, radeon 9800 pro, and Creative Audigy sound card.

It worked fine for months, then all of a sudden this problem starts. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, and that works to prolong the successful audio, but it still craps out. The interesting thing is it also stops winamp from playing audio. Everything works fine again after you shut down explorer (through task manager works fine).