Screen Saver Locking up DVD Player

While watching a DVD in full screen, the movie stopped playing and the application locked up. A force quit was able to get out of it, but it happened once again. After setting my screen saver to never go off the problem stopped.

OK. Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that list into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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This may seem like a silly question, but I like to watch the Simpsons while falling asleep. The issue being that by the time the DVD has run it's course, I have fallen asleep only to wake up maybe several hours later and the screen saver isn't on. So as not to burn out the screen, the drive, or the hard drive, is there a way to stop the DVD player from overriding the power saving settings? Better put, can I get my mac to go to into sleep mode after a set period of time while the DVD player is running?
Thanks for your help.

Don't mention it. You were the one who said the question might seem silly, and you were right. Actually, the question itself wasn't silly:
...can I get my mac to go to into sleep mode after a set period of time while the DVD player is running?
That was a reasonable question, and I answered it straight. My somewhat facetious response to the underlying situation reflected my perception that you want to have your machine runniing and sleeping at the same time, which is an impossibility on its face.

Cannot log in back after screen saver locked the computer

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We have a domain environment with Windows 2012 R2 and a Windows 2003 domain controllers and Windows XP and Windows 7 clients. We have setup a GPO for screen saver which lock the computer after 15 minutes idle. In the last few weeks on some Windows 7 computers
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I've tried to reach the computer through RDP but same error came up even tried to log in as domain admin. I could log in as domain admin locally (switch user option) but as a user cannot. I've tried to restart Netlogon, Workstation and Server services but
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I could log in as domain admin locally (switch user option) but as a user cannot. I've tried to restart Netlogon, Workstation and Server services but nothing happened. In the event viewer no related error message. The only way to login back as a user
to restart the computer. It is not really good solution as they opened lots of things which wasn't saved.
Hi,
Since you could login with Domain Admin locally, it should didn't have problem with Netlogon service and other logon correspond service. It seems like the account itself problem.
When this problem occures, have you tried to use other computer logon with the problematic account for test? If other normal computer also had same problem when using the account. It's should your Server authenticate problem. If not, it maybe the domain
account profile problem, you can try to remove the account and readded it for test.
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Screen saver locks up computer

When my wifes 1-year old iMac goes into screen saver, it has a tendancy to lock up, requiring a hard power-down and restart. This has only started recently. It has the latest Lion updates installed. I've seen a few similar comments but no one seems to have posted a solution. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can prevent this from happening?

I can't really say until more info is learned about the issue. If it's a screen saver that's got a corrupted plist then it may be a simple as getting rid of the plist. If it's a screen saver that's just incompatible with lion then get another screen saver.
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I just made a showreel DVD (1 menu, 1 video track) in DVD SP 3.02. It plays back correctly on all dvd players (stand alone, PC) except Apple DVD Player: it strechtes the menu and the video vertically so it's missing the lower 25% of the screen. When I press 'pause' while the video is playing, and then 'play' again, it jumps to the correct aspect ratio. But after ejecting and inserting it again, the same problem appears. I really want to solve this problem, because a lot of my clients use their apple laptop to watch the dvd. Is there a setting I'm missing?
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Thanks for your reply, but the problem hasn't been solved yet. There are no assets in my menu (only a small button with text, in the center of the screen), and my video is already 720x576.
I do get some warnings when I build/format my DVD. After it says 'compile completed succesfully' and before it starts formatting, it says this:
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Warning: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the VIDEO_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
Warning: The file ‘WARD.layout’ found in the VIDEO_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
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On PC's you can lock your screen when you walk away and must enter your login password to unlock. Is there a keyboard sequence where you can lock your Mac the same way?
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This process works well, and is easier than a key stroke:
Under the "Security and Privacy" tab in System Preferences, click the box next to 'Require password [immediately] after sleep or screen saver begins." Then, under the "Mission Control" tab, click "Hot Corners" in the bottom-left corner. Choose a corner (I have mine set for bottom-right) and click the tabbed menu. Choose either 'put display to sleep' or 'start screen saver.' When you are about to leave your desk, just drag your mouse to the bottom-right corner until the screen sleeps or your screen saver kicks in. Simple as that!

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Our WMS 2011 Premium server boots and then after the association of the mouse and keyboard the screen saver starts and then simply moves when the mouse moves or the keyboard is touched.
There is no way to get around the screen saver and the system is not accessible from any other station.
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I had this happen to me and I ended up solving it by disassociating my LAN client, installing all of my USB stations, and then associating my LAN client again. Evidently, when the LAN client was connecting, my system would lock up. By adding all of my USB
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R C-R wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the current behavior: you say it still locked up, yet that the canned screen savers now work. Can you explain?
One thing others have suggested for a similar issue is to make sure the iLife Support 9.0.3;/a> update is installed, but I'm not sure that applies to you.
Also, make sure any custom screen savers you have are not PPC-only ones.
Well, those were the three magic words—downloaded the update, rebooted, and the screen savor pref worked perfectly, just like it should!! Don’t know why this upgrade never showed up in the software update from Apple, it certainly should have.
Here’s what it was doing in more detail: The desktop side of the pref worked with no problem, but when you went into the screen saver side you could do one thing--say pick one of the canned saver and close the window. But if you went to scroll down to get to the ‘choose folder’ option and opened that up, the beechball came on forever, and the only way to close the window was a force quit, which meant you lost any changes you wanted.
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