DVD Player windows keep minimizing

I have the same problem... DVD Player will randomly change from full screen size to another window size at least one time during a movie. I will change it back to full screen size but it will immediately revert back to a small viewing window. I need to change back to full screen size twice before it holds. This normally happens two times during a movie. It seems like a random event. However, it happens in every movie (I watch at least one a week). I can't remember when this started. I initially thought it was due to a scratch on the disk or some other disk related issue. It has happened so many times I think it is software related. I'm running Mac OS 10.5.4 on a Macbook. This didn't happen on 10.4 on the same hardware.

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I have this same problem exactly as described by the 2 previous messages. Any solutions yet?

brookm wrote:
I have this same problem exactly as described by the 2 previous messages. Any solutions yet?

Check your logs for information regarding this event. It might show something.

I also have the same problem. After about 20 minutes of playing (sometimes more) my DVD player will just minimize. Incredibly frustrating.

Anyone have any ideas?

I thought at first it had something to do with Growl, but turning that off yielded no results.

I have the exact same problem- I'll be watching a movie on my 17" Macbook Pro and it will simply minimize for no reason- no screen saver, no sleep mode, and at completely random times. I have OSX Leopard and the Intel Core 2 processor. When I first brought it home, it had Tiger on it, and later I bought the Leopard OS Disk and upgraded. After the upgrade is when I noticed the problem.

Recently, I bought an entirely new 500 GB hard drive and installed it into my Macbook Pro. I put Leopard back onto my system and I thought the problem would be solved, but to my dismay, the problem persists. It's got to be a software issue, and I wish that it would get fixed.

For the other people who have posted the same problem, and to the people who have the same problem but haven't posted- POST SOMETHING!! If we keep posting, the problem it might get recognized and fixed in an update.

I love my Macbook Pro, and this DVD Player problem is the only problem I have with it. At work, I have to use a PC and I could only wish that a small DVD player issue would be the only thing wrong with it!

I am POSTING SOMETHING! 🙂

I have what appears to be the same problem as the other posters here. I wouldn't describe the behavior as "minimizing" though. The DVD Player application drops out of full screen mode and continues playing as normal in a regular window. Not minimized.

It does this seemingly at random, without any input from me. It will do it 2-3 times during a movie. I haven't timed the intervals to see if they are a constant. It's very annoying to have to get up from my seat and hit Command-F to reenter full screen mode (my MacBook is my primary DVD player in my living room). It doesn't seem to make any difference what DVD I'm playing; it'll do it with anything. It does it with or without my MiniDVI-to-Composite Video adapter, so the video-out hardware doesn't seem to make a difference.

I run the audio through an M-Audio Transit USB for surround sound output to my home theater. Haven't tested without that but I doubt it's related based on what I've read from the others here. If I think of it, I'll post the related system logs here next time it happens to me.

The answer is in fact relatively simple. DVD Player does that every time your screensaver is set to come on, i.e. when your desktop is set to go to sleep.

Set that in System Preferences to not happen, and DVD Player will play Ben Hur without a break! 🙂

Good tip, but isn't there any way to automatically disable sleep mode while DVD Player is running, and turn it back on when the program is closed? Surely this is the default behavior (since most people aren't encountering this issue) and Apple doesn't really expect people to go into System Prefs before and after every movie they watch.

Apple doesn't really expect people to go into System Prefs before and after every movie they watch

Fair point! 🙂

I have this same problem, it is really annoying. if it was the sleep function that caused it to minimize would it do it every 10 minutes?? (or whatever ur sleep time is) but instead it only does it once at the start????

help!!

also this does not happen when i use VLC instead of DVD.