System seems unsually unstable

I have a G4 400MHz PPC with 384 MB SDRAM. It's old, yes, but I'm still using it regularly and still like my machine.
However, for some reason, it seems that it can't handle tasks, perhaps 'heavy' tasks, as easily anymore. At least sometimes.
For example, when I used to watch videos in QuickTime or VLC, it would generally play smoothly and maybe drop some frames a little bit if I had something CPU-intensive goin gon in the background. When I played a DVD through the Apple DVD Player, it would virtually always be just fine.
Browsers, messengers, etc. could be open and always the DVD Played fine and VLC/QT would almost always be just fine.
But now? I just watched a DVD and there would be jitters in the film maybe happening every 15-25 seconds or so. To top it off, I only had 3 programs running and none of them use a significant percentage of the CPU or ram. What gives?
I really don't get it... the daily/weekly/monthly maintenance (Cron) runs fairly regularly as it should, and my system is generally just fine and works well enough for me.
Im not stupid when it comes to computers.. I'm no genius, but I've learned quite a bit about computers in general as well as OS X, and even my very-computer-inclined-Linux-nerd roomate is confused.
Any suggestions in regards to diagnosing the issue is appreciated.
Oh, and the DVD was not a homemade one... it was a major film release.

Hi, Andrew.
1. Did you rename your Home folder? If so, see "Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent 'loss' of home directory."
2. Are you using FileVault? If so, try the instructions in "Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: FileVault - How to verify or repair a home directory image."
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
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00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
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aes_x86_64 7508 3
cryptd 8309 0
aes_generic 26138 1 aes_x86_64
coretemp 5590 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6164 2
acpi_cpufreq 5877 1
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arc4 1410 2
joydev 9895 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 24121 1
iwlwifi 248196 0
i915 420018 3
snd_hda_codec_conexant 47300 1
uvcvideo 64311 0
mac80211 228527 1 iwlwifi
videodev 82101 1 uvcvideo
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broadcom 7270 0
tg3 134884 0
ideapad_laptop 8534 0
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snd_pcm 74780 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
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i2c_i801 8187 0
i2c_algo_bit 5263 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 26137 1 i915
intel_agp 10904 1 i915
btusb 11385 0
cfg80211 172260 2 mac80211,iwlwifi
bluetooth 151999 1 btusb
sparse_keymap 3120 1 ideapad_laptop
soundcore 6210 1 snd
drm 188499 4 drm_kms_helper,i915
rfkill 15498 3 bluetooth,cfg80211,ideapad_laptop
serio_raw 4429 0
iTCO_vendor_support 1961 1 iTCO_wdt
media 10597 2 videodev,uvcvideo
psmouse 61311 0
libphy 16985 2 tg3,broadcom
i2c_core 20492 6 drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801,videodev,i915
intel_gtt 14519 3 intel_agp,i915
pcspkr 1819 0
evdev 9530 8
thermal 7799 0
wmi 8475 0
battery 6453 0
ac 2344 0
video 11164 1 i915
button 4470 1 i915
processor 25582 3 acpi_cpufreq
ext4 420412 3
crc16 1359 2 ext4,bluetooth
jbd2 71499 1 ext4
mbcache 5881 1 ext4
sd_mod 28307 5
ahci 20037 4
libahci 19559 1 ahci
libata 166654 2 libahci,ahci
scsi_mod 133676 2 libata,sd_mod
uhci_hcd 23116 0
ehci_hcd 40698 0
usbcore 146113 5 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,btusb,uvcvideo
usb_common 954 1 usbcore
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Dear all:
After a recent hard disk crash that caused me to lose a lot of important professional and personal information I replaced my old defective hard disk (a Seagate Barracuda 1.0 TB internal SATA drive) with a new one (a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB internal SATA drive).
The issue I am now experiencing may or may not be related to the new drive but I wanted to post it here and have your opinions about it. It seems to me that since this new hard disk was installed that my system is slower than it was before. Something else I noticed is that iTunes seems to hang every once in a little while, freezing and a while later resuming its operation (as if it were frozen while trying to read the information from its library located on the new hard disk ???).
Since the capacity of the new disk has increased some 50% compared to the older one, could this be the issue ? Can the fact that the 1.5 TB hard disk are new technology be a reason why this is happening (some issues still not completely resolved) or could it be that the capacity being so much greater requires the drive to work harder at finding the data ?
In case the information is relevant the drive's speed is 7200 rpm but I couldn't find any information (including Seagate's own web site) about its seek time spec.
Something else I noticed is that since I've installed the two 1.5 TB internal drives the fans inside my G5 have become more noticeable, raising their speed to a noisy level every now and then depending on what I am doing with my computer. This didn't happened before when I had only one internal hard disk installed (my original purchase configuration) and when I had (2) internal 400 GB hard disks installed.
Any ideas ?
Thank you in advance.
Joseph Chamberlain

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Yellow Lights for Assets, But the System Seems Idle

Have a HD (16:9) project finished except the video assets for buttons all have yellow lights. Opened Activity Monitor and it seems to confirm that the system is at rest, but two tasks are red and unresponsive.
DSPX_AENCODER (NOT RESPONSIVE)
DSPX_ENCODER (NOT RESPONSIVE)
It is a dual-quad MacPro with 12GBytes of RAM. Nothing is running except DVD-SP and Activity Monitor. Cores are all at rest except for occasional one-bar of activity. 1.3GByte of RAM is total used with 10.7GB free. Disk indicates 4-5 I/Os per second with 0 date read and/or written.
I have killed the tasks, restarted the program, and re-booted the system multiple times. DVDSP starts each time with the same two tasks unresponsive.
The main asset, which is the main HD video was compressed using compressor prior to importing into DVDSP. I noticed that while compressing, Activity Monitor told me that the task TRANSCODER was NOT RESPONDING, but the video compression was successful.
Is Activity Monitor trustworthy with Compressor tasks?
Thanks in advance folks. These boards save my life over, and over! Over.

Anton,
Thanks for your help. That seemed to be the case. The build command caused the yellow assets to complete. However both encoders stayed red in the activity monitor and said they were "not responding," all the time.
Where are the settings for transcoding?
I burned the DVD, and received the message that the burn was successful, but my player connected to the TV would not recognize it. DVD player on the mac will play it, but it hesitates occasionally.
I guess more experimentation is in order.

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