Play and Make a Movie or Slide Show

Your Mac’s solid graphical underpinnings mean that it is a great tool for video playback. For example, OS X comes with tools that enable you to watch movies on DVD. You can play digital video such as movies, TV shows, and podcast files that you download from the Internet, or digital video that you import from a camera. You can also use OS X to create your own digital movies and your own photo slide shows.

Play a DVD

If your Mac has a DVD drive, you can use the DVD Player application to play a DVD movie. You can either use full-screen mode to watch the movie using the entire screen, or watch the movie in a window while you work on other things. DVD Player has features that enable you to control the movie playback ...

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