QuickTime Player should not be auto-terminated if playing a movie

Originator:jediknil
Number:rdar://11361044 Date Originated:2012-05-01
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:QuickTime Product Version:10.1 (501.8)
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Sometimes
 
Summary:
When QuickTime Player is hidden, it is sometimes auto-terminated (Lion's Automatic Termination feature) even if it is playing a movie.

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Load up your RAM so that auto-termination comes into play.
1. Open a movie in QuickTime.
2. Start playing the movie.
3. Hide QuickTime.
4. Go about your work and continue consuming memory.

Expected Results:
The movie audio continues to play until the movie is finished.

Actual Results:
The audio cuts off in the middle, and QuickTime no longer shows up in Activity Monitor (because Automatic Termination has kicked in).

Regression:
Present since Automatic Termination (i.e. 10.7.0), non-issue before that.

Notes:
- QuickTime doesn't even properly recover from being auto-terminated -- it acts like it is still running, but clicking on its icon in the Dock or switching to it in the Command-Tab switcher does not bring back the app. It must be quit and then reopened.

- This happens with both video and audio files.

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