DVD Player Freezes
Hi everybody!
I went through almost a dozen pages and haven't seen any thread about my issue, so I really am looking forward for an informed and competent answer.
My girlfriend has bought a bit less than a year ago a brand new MacBook,1,83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 Mo SDRAM. Since then, and through every upgrades to the OS, we've been experiencing problems with the computer when playing DVD's. I can't remember we've had this bug anywhere else.
The problem is that, when watching a movie on the computer, if we hit pause, then when clicking play the movie won't resume. It doesn't happen everytime, it looks completely random. But it still can happen 3 or 4 times by watched movie. That's annoying.
Then, being in full screen mode with DVD Player frozen, I can't get back to the OS, or even bring on the Force Quit box on screen. Option+Tab won't work neither. Hitting the power button won't even force it to get back to the Are you sure you want to shut down dialogue box. The only thing I can do is to hold down the power button to force a reboot, and hear the Mac sound again, of course.
It has also happened when browsing the menus or when fast-forwarding.
It seems to be link to episodes when the sound level shortcuts on the keyboard won't work neither.
In most of those situations, I could reckon some sound meaning there was some action down there in the cd slot, but without any results. I tried to wait, and check if the playback would eventually take on by itself, I've waited over half an hour with nothing getting back to life.
I've checked the memory, though that was a while ago, but no problem was seen.
Any ideas anybody?
Thanks.
I went through almost a dozen pages and haven't seen any thread about my issue, so I really am looking forward for an informed and competent answer.
My girlfriend has bought a bit less than a year ago a brand new MacBook,1,83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 Mo SDRAM. Since then, and through every upgrades to the OS, we've been experiencing problems with the computer when playing DVD's. I can't remember we've had this bug anywhere else.
The problem is that, when watching a movie on the computer, if we hit pause, then when clicking play the movie won't resume. It doesn't happen everytime, it looks completely random. But it still can happen 3 or 4 times by watched movie. That's annoying.
Then, being in full screen mode with DVD Player frozen, I can't get back to the OS, or even bring on the Force Quit box on screen. Option+Tab won't work neither. Hitting the power button won't even force it to get back to the Are you sure you want to shut down dialogue box. The only thing I can do is to hold down the power button to force a reboot, and hear the Mac sound again, of course.
It has also happened when browsing the menus or when fast-forwarding.
It seems to be link to episodes when the sound level shortcuts on the keyboard won't work neither.
In most of those situations, I could reckon some sound meaning there was some action down there in the cd slot, but without any results. I tried to wait, and check if the playback would eventually take on by itself, I've waited over half an hour with nothing getting back to life.
I've checked the memory, though that was a while ago, but no problem was seen.
Any ideas anybody?
Thanks.
Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 15po, 512ram
