Freezes at 1 min

When I am burning certain movies iDVD just stops the wheel continues to spin but the counter stays the same forever. It usually gets down to 1 min and never goes any farther I have left it on over night and in the morning it still has not finished but other movies burn with no problem. Has anyone else had this issue? There is no error message it just never finishes. Any help would be appreciated.

Not really anything in common other than they are all files downloaded from the internet but from different places. Some burn some don't but they all will play on my mac so I do not understand why they will not burn so its not like the files are incomplete or corrupted and it is frustrating because it will go through the whole process and then just stop when it gets to one min left.

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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Brett L

Freezing after 20 min of use.

I use this Macbook Pro 2011 daily with 10.8.2 and with no real changes to speak of (ie installing software) i've started experiencing freezes after about 30 min of use.
Programs start becoming unresponsive
Beachball appears.
System freezes until restart.
No crash log as it doesn't actually crash just freezes.
I checked the log and saw that a geek tool couldn't find a file so i shut that down and restarted in case it was the cause. It happened again though and i copied this as the last few messages before i had to restart.
if anyone can shed light on what's suddenly causing this it would be greatly appreciated.
2012-12-10 1:41:26.436 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[91]: _handle_timer heartbeat detected detach for device 0x11-10.0.1.18:0!
2012-12-10 1:42:49.052 PM mdworker[641]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
2012-12-10 1:42:49.061 PM mdworker[642]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
2012-12-10 1:42:49.136 PM sandboxd[643]: ([641]) mdworker(641) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
2012-12-10 1:42:49.146 PM sandboxd[643]: ([642]) mdworker(642) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
2012-12-10 1:42:49.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(643) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
2012-12-10 1:43:46.850 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[91]: _handle_timer heartbeat detected detach for device 0x12-10.0.1.18:0!

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Post the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message. When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

ITunes Freezes my Mac Mini - Power Cycle Required

Hi,
If I leave my Mac unattended for long periods of time with iTunes open (whether playing music (it helps negate my tinitus) or not), my machine becomes completely frozen and needs to be powered down. If I leave it without iTunes open, it does not freeze.
So I'm depserately looking for a solution. I've tried repairing the permissions, re-installing iTunes, removing screensavers and changing my power settings but nothing seems to have made a difference. There are no logs reporting problems either.
Does anybody have any idea what I can do to remedy this? There are no other problems with my computer (none that I am aware of).
Most of my music is on an external USB drive (MP3 brought over from Windows) and the rest is on my main personal folder. I have about 20Gb free on my main system drive.
Thanks in advance

I think the newest iTunes is a bit buggy. I have those complete system freezes if I start some movies one after another for testing purposes. All goes well unti film 3 or 4 and then the whole MBP stalls. Only help - reboot.
Another thing: every movie or TV show stalls after a certain time for some moments and jumps forward some seconds. After that stall, all runs OK, only some seconds later a short stuttering is noticeable.
I have a very large audio library on a external drive as primary drive. I leave the movies on another external drive w(o copying to the primary drive. So I just think, iTunes is stretched to its limit and has memory problems. The iPod classic 160 had those in the first weeks after its appearance, too. Lots of people with large libraries exchanged their iPods w/o effect. I was patient and now at least that works fine.
mk

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