Chapter 12. The Multimedia Mac
In This Chapter
Watching DVD movies on your Mac with DVD Player
Watching movies with QuickTime Player
Entertaining yourself with Front Row
Opening, viewing, printing, and converting file formats with Preview
Importing media — photos and videos — to your Mac
Media content is more than just music (the topic of Chapter 11), and your Mac is ready, willing, and able to handle almost any type of media (with any type of content) you can throw at it. Which is why, in addition to the aforementioned iTunes, Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes applications for viewing and working with media such as DVD movie discs, QuickTime movie files, as well as graphics in a variety of file formats such as PDF, TIFF, and JPEG.
In this chapter, you look at some bundled applications you can use to work with such media — namely, DVD Player, QuickTime Player, Preview, Front Row, and Image Capture — followed by a brief section about importing your own media (photos and videos) into your Mac.
Watching Movies with DVD Player
Figure 12-1. DVD Player's on-screen controller gadgets.
Warning
If you've changed your preferences, DVD Player might not start automatically. See the upcoming sidebar for details.
Follow these steps to watch a DVD:
Insert a video DVD into a Mac with DVD Player.
This step automatically ...
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