MBP SR Total Freeze

I have had my MBP SR for exactly one month now - no problems until yesterday.
I was watching a DVD using DVD Player, and suddenly the MBP slowly started to freeze up until it was completely gone.
First, the picture froze - I thought maybe the DVD is bad and hit eject. Nothing happened. I tried to switch to other apps with CMD-Tab - not working.
Now I got worried and tried to CMD-OPT-ESC force quit the DVD player. Nothing happened. A spinning beach ball appeared and I could move it around with the trackpad.
I tried to force-esc again, then waited - maybe it would recover. Ultimately after a one or two minutes, the spinning beach ball also froze in place.
I did a hard restart and it rebooted just fine. I could not find anything in the consoles but I don't really know which one to look at for an issue like this.
While playing the DVD I had lots of different apps open in the background and was connected on Airport so it's possible something besides the DVD player caused this.
I was subsequently able to watch the DVD using VLC player - seems to be a lot better in dealing with badly encoded DVDs than DVD Player and I didn't want to risk another hard freeze.
It's disappointing because I am almost 100% sure this was a software crash of OS X - this machine has been running fine for a month so I don't think it's memory or similar. It might have overheated but the fans very dead silent so I don't think that's what happened.
Can anyone make an educated guess as to what could lead to a rather slow freeze up like this? I find it interesting that the trackpad initially worked, and only died a few minutes into this. Also where would I look for any error logs? I didn't get the kernel panic message on screen. It just froze up.

Hi Y,
You may want topost in the Boot Camp forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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