September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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234 switching to the mac: the missing manual
DVD Movies
If your Mac has a DVD drive (a combo drive or SuperDrive), you’re in for a treat. Your
Mac can play rented or purchased movies on DVD as though it were born to do so.
Watching movies on your Mac screen couldn’t be simpler: Just insert the DVD. The
Mac detects that it’s a video DVD (as opposed to, say, a music DVD) and, unless
you’ve fiddled with your preference settings, opens the DVD Player program (Figure
8-16).
If DVD Player starts out playing your movie in a window, your first act should be
to choose VideoÆEnter Full Screen (c-0). At this point, the movie screen fills your
entire monitor—even the menu bar disappears. (To make it reappear, just move your
cursor near the top of the screen.)
At this point, you’re ready to play the movie. By far the easiest way is to just press
the Space bar—once to start, again to pause, again to start again. You can also use
Figure 8-16:
Top: A DVD on your screen! Use your mouse
to click the buttons, if you like; that’s a lot
more direct than having to use the arrow
keys on a remote control.
Bottom: You can orient this controller either
horizontally or vertically on your screen by
choosing ControlsÆUse Vertical Controller.
Previous chapter/Next chapter
(hold to scan backward/forward)
Slo-mo
Frame Advance
Return to Movie
Subtitles
Language
Angle
Expansion Handle
DVD Movies
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