Wow. There's even a bug in the DVD Player in Leopard. :D

This is a weird one. I open up DVD Player and go to Preferences and tell the player NOT to automatically play when I put a movie in, and yet it still does! I still had my original Leopard install on my original 160GB drive, so I booted off there, and it does the same thing!

Talk about lame bugs, though not as annoying as the screen turning off after 3 minutes by itself, no matter what power-savings options you choose. Hopefully the next update for Leopard will fix that!

 

Hmm that's weird. I don't have either of the bugs you mention...

 

Ya I came within an inch of going back to Tiger last night because of the way leopard handles airport disks. Right now I am praying that 10.5.2 is as good as is being hyped. Otherwise odds are good I will shelf leopard until an update that fixes these bugs is released.

 

I am not having those issues either. I just tried what the OP was talking about. I changed in DVD preferences not to start the movie. I popped in a DVD and DVD player opened and only a wallpaper showed up and the movie did not play. I changed the preferences to play the movie and popped in the DVD and the movie began playing.
I have never had the screen go black outside of what I have set in energy settings.
The OP may want to check any 3rd party software installed that may be impacting Leopard's performance or do a complete erase, reformat and install which is what I did when I first installed Leopard and I have had very little to no issues with Leopard.

 

Trust me. It's a Leopard bug. If you're not affected, you're doing well! There's a HUGE thread about the black-screen on Apple's site.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1210178&tstart=0

The DVD thing I'll reserve judgment for, though - as I said, it does it on my installation and a fresh install on an external drive.

**EDIT**

It does it on my friend's brand new iMac, too - the DVD bug.

**EDIT 2**

The only way I can stop a DVD playing when I insert a disc is to go to Preferences and turn off the option: "When DVD Player opens, Start Playing disc". Now when I put a DVD in it loads DVD Player but doesn't actually start playing it.

Still stupid if you ask me....

 

OK, well it turns out the DVD thing isn't a bug, but rather very silly settings placements by Apple. If you go into System Preferences, and then CD and DVD settings, you can turn off the autoplay of DVDs etc, which kind of makes the DVD Player settings redundant. Don't ask me why it's laid out that way.

The screen going black bug probably doesn't happen on iMacs, and seems to be for the most part (if not totally), a portable device issue. Apple are apparently aware of it so hopefully 10.5.2 fixes it!

 

Wow, I can almost feel the stress coming from you. Man, relax, things aren't all the way they seem. As usual I don't play into streams of threads of people having issues especially if I am not because there are still thousands of people not having issues and they won't post so that's why I don't play into those negative threads.
I wasn't getting exactly what you were trying to do in terms of the DVD. I would have mentioned going into System Preferences and changing the option not to launch the DVD player upon insertion but you were talking specifically about the DVD app.

Now, I have a Alu Powerbook G4 as well and the screen does not black out. I have it set to dim after 20 minutes and and it does and I just tried it to dim after 60 seconds and it did it without problem.

 

Is your G4 running Leopard, though? This is definitely a Leopard bug, and everyone I know with a MacBook Pro has this issue with Leopard and screen dimming/going to black. Heck, even Apple are aware of it.

FYI, I'm very relaxed. I just laugh because Apple has made some fantastic hardware/software with some really, really odd bugs.

 

Yes, I have only Leopard on all of my Macs. It's pretty typical for an upgrade as big as Leopard to not be perfect but a lot of issues stem from 3rd party apps not being fully Leopard compatible.

Yeah but in all honesty the only issue I have had with Leopard has been with my bluetooth Mighty Mouse. It tends to stop working and I have to switch the Mighty Mouse off and then back on to get the cursor back. This happens periodically but not often. I think it has to do with the bluetooth as I have erased and reformatted a couple of times and it still happens but other than that I am a power user and have had zero issues with Leopard.

Also one more note, I haven't seen this black screen issue at the Apple retail stores. I frequent them as I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and I hang there on slow days when people are not using the computers and all the Macbooks and Pros screens stay lit up.

 

I do not have any of these issues either. DVD Player.app works accordingly to my configuration. When I insert a DVD, nothing happens. And when I open DVD Player.app with or without a DVD already in my Mac, it's the same thing; the application opens as expected and nothing automatically plays. If I already have DVD Player.app open and then insert a DVD, the movie will automatically play (you can prevent this from happening by choosing the correct option in the DVD Player Preferences. DVD Player > Preferences > Player > When a disc is inserted: Start playing disc"). Here are the relevant settings.

DVD Player.app > DVD Player > Preferences > Player [Uncheck "Start playing disc"]


System Preferences > CDs & DVDs ["Ignore" "When you insert a video DVD"]

 

Well, from a fresh install with nothing installed, it does it, and it does it on both my friends' new MBPs!

 

My only bug I've had is I can't get the screen saver to not come on. It's completely disabled, and after 10 minutes it will launch.

Only happens on my new G5 though (dualcore 2.3), where my 1.8 single didn't have it.

 

OK,
Hi everyone,
This is my first post and i am hoping that somebody might be able to help me out.

i installed Leopard when it first came out.......great i thought.....went without a hiccup. Now, a few weeks later i seem to have run into a problem. DVDplayer will not recognize any of my dvd backups (not illegal copies) personal backups of my original films (just thought i would get that out of the way for legal reasons). DVDplayer will play original dvd's and it will also play image files of dvd films that are on my hard drive.
It's all a bit weird because i can insert a dvd (copy) into the drive and it won't even get mounted as a video dvd. It just gets recognized as a blank dvd and asks me how i want to proceed i.e open with idvd, itunes etc
I have tried VLC player and that doesn't see the dvd either. Even if i open the dvd with finder (manually) it doesn't show anything on the disk.

The disks do however, play on a standalone player. Please please give me some advice before i pull the rest of my hair out

 

Bizarre, any backups I've ever made work just fine....

Weird... anyone else want to chime in here?

 

My backups work just fine here too. DVD Player recognizes them and plays perfectly.

 

Just a thought. could it be a dodgy laser in my superdrive. Or maybe just a glitch with leopard. My Old man has got a new 24inch imac and the copied dvds work perfectly on his. but not on mine...By the way i have a macpro 2.66 with 2gb ram and 512 ati radeon and a HUGE 30inch display ....but its a ***** now i can't play movie disks........

 

ok....after weeks of trying to find out wot the problem is with dvd player i have found that its not a problem with dvdplayer at all. I took my superdrive out of the machine and took it apart. I then cleaned the laser part of it and all of the surrounding parts. Put it all back together and hey presto .....all working again. Weird though how it would only play proper retail dvds and cd's and not copied ones....Probably down to different lasers it uses....I dunno....But hey ...it all works fine now.

 

To WilliamG,

Just another thought here; can you try to make the changes for the DVDplayer in system preferences rather than through the player itself. Does that make a difference?