My PB froze while playin DVD (twice)~!
Hi~!
i have the latest Ti model (super-drive), the one before the Al PB...
My PB has been 'good' and never given me 'big trouble'....
today i was watching a movie (DVD) and this dvd disk (which is not an 'original' one... borrowed for the weekend from a friend who burnt it on a PC) was not well burnt.... apparently there are no physical problems concerning the disk surface...
but there was a moment in which the DVD player froze and so my Mac... it didnt respond to the "force quit" (CommdAltEsc) command, though the Num Lock and Caps Lock buttons lit when i pressed them... and I had the PB lid closed with S-video out cable to the TV set...
this is not the first time i watch movies this way... but this is the first time my Mac does not respond to the 'force quit' command...
so the question is:
even though it might be a faulty burnt dvd disk, would this reason be enough to make my Mac freeze? it happened 3 times, the 1st time i could quit DVD player and then re-insert the dvd and it went on without problems...
but the 2nd and 3rd time, My Mac froze, so i had to do what i hate the most: "pressing the Power button" (for the 2nd and the 3rd time)
i didnt update my Mac yet, i still have 10.4.5 (with the 001 SW update only)
so please help me identify the 'cause'....
thanks a lot~!
ps:
my DVD player's version:
4.6.5
iTunes:
6.0.1
QT:
7.0.3
i have iLife '05
thanks for ur response...
and thanks for the piece of advise.. i'll run that Disk Utility.. (i only ran the Permission Repair)....
and the Force Quit works well with other apps... but i was disappointed at Dvd Player... maybe it caused 'something real serious' so it would not respond even to FQ....
but the 1st time i ran this DVD in mention, when it stopped, i could easily quit the DVD Player... but donno why.. the 2nd and the 3rd time didnt....
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