STUMPED: Beachballing when I open DVD player in 10.5 on PB 1.25g ram?

[California]

I cannot believe it. I just upgraded from a 100gb 7200rpm hard drive in my 12" Powerbook, maxed out ram at 1.25gbs to a 250gb 5400 drive.

And now I do not even have enough memory in Leopard to open DVD player?

Geez louise, even on an old iMac G3 with 512 ram, I could play a movie!

What is going on here?

I closed down everything, repaired permissions and emptied the trash; even shut off Time Machine.

Activity monitor SPIKED when I tried to open DVD player, then beachballed.

I don't get it. Do I have to downgrade to Tiger just to watch a movie?

 

[jons]

I cannot believe it. I just upgraded from a 100gb 7200rpm hard drive in my 12" Powerbook, maxed out ram at 1.25gbs to a 250gb 5400 drive.

And now I do not even have enough memory in Leopard to open DVD player?

Geez louise, even on an old iMac G3 with 512 ram, I could play a movie!

What is going on here?

I closed down everything, repaired permissions and emptied the trash; even shut off Time Machine.

Activity monitor SPIKED when I tried to open DVD player, then beachballed.

I don't get it. Do I have to downgrade to Tiger just to watch a movie?

What version of 10.5 are you running? Have you tried updating? Is DVD player the only app giving you problems?

 

[California]

What version of 10.5 are you running? Have you tried updating? Is DVD player the only app giving you problems?

I'm running 10.5.2 and no other app is giving me problems.

I wonder -- maybe it is a hardware issue? I have no idea what the issue is.

 

[nick9191]

Try VLC

 

[AppleMatt]

There is a bug in 10.5.2 and the graphics update with DVD Player on Aluminium PowerBooks, check out the threads on Apples forums.

Basically, the solution is to wait for 10.5.3.

AppleMatt