DVD Movies
Watching movies on your Mac screen couldn’t be simpler: Just insert a movie DVD. Unless you’ve fiddled with your preference settings, the DVD Player program opens and begins playing the movie in a full-screen mode. (Even the menu bar disappears. To make it reappear, move your cursor to near the top of the screen.)
Note
If DVD Player doesn’t open automatically when you insert a DVD movie, you can open it yourself. It’s sitting there in your Applications folder. (Then fix the problem, using System Preferences→CDs & DVDs.)
Playing a Movie
Once DVD Player starts playing your movie, you can move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, at any time, to bring up the control bar (Figure 12-9).
Or just use the keyboard controls, which appear here in this clip ’n’ save cheat sheet:
Function | Keystroke |
|---|---|
Play, Pause | space bar |
Fast-forward, rewind | Shift-⌘- |
Skip forward/back 5 seconds | Option-⌘- |
Louder, quieter | ⌘- |
Mute/unmute ... |
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