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Chapter 8: Creating Your Media Library with Windows Media Player

Next

Goes to the next file. If you click and hold this button, you can fast-forward.

Mute

Mutes the sound.

Volume Control

Adjusts the sound level.

View Full Screen

Displays the player in full-screen mode, when allowed.

Switch to Compact Mode

Displays the compact player with only the controls.

If you don’t want to see the List Pane, you can hide it by clicking the Hide List Pane

button, or by right-clicking Now Playing and then clearing the Show List Pane

option. You can display the List Pane again by right-clicking Now Playing and then

selecting the Show List Pane option.

Using Now Playing with Video DVDs Loaded into Your DVD Drive

You can play video DVDs loaded into your DVD drive by right-clicking Now Play-

ing and then choosing the appropriate Play option, as shown in Figure 8-12. Win-

dows Media Player starts playing the introductory materials, and then you’ll see the

DVD Start screen, which you can use to play the video, access specific episodes or

chapters, view bonus material, or select an alternative language.

Windows Media Player uses media information from the Windows

Media database to display the movie title and information about the

movie. If you aren’t connected to the Internet and the required infor-

mation wasn’t previously downloaded into the Windows Media Player

cache, you’ll see the title “Unknown DVD.”

Figure 8-12. Selecting a DVD to play

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When working with video DVDs, you’ll see the modified Controls toolbar shown in

Figure 8-13. Here, the first three buttons of the standard Controls toolbar are

replaced with these two buttons:

DVD menu

Displays the DVD menu for selecting special features, getting DVD information,

setting the video playback size, or viewing the video in full-screen mode.

Stop button

Stops playing the video. As with a DVD player, if you then click Play, play resumes

from the beginning and you’ll see promos and other introductory materials.

Clicking the View Full Screen button or Full Screen option on the DVD menu displays

the video in full-screen mode. You can exit this mode by pressing the Esc key. When a

movie starts to play, you can skip the introductory materials by selecting the first movie

track in the List Pane or by selecting the Root Menu option on the DVD menu.

On the DVD menu, you’ll see a Special Features submenu that has these submenus:

Audio

Use this menu to choose an alternative language soundtrack. For example, with

my Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon movie, I could listen to the movie in Chi-

nese (Taiwan), English (United States), or French (France).

Set Video Size

Use this menu to set the default video size. By default, Windows Media Player is

configured to fit the video to the player window on resize, allowing Windows

Media Player to adjust the video size automatically if you change the size of the

player window. You can also set a relative playback size within the window of 50

percent, 100 percent, or 200 percent.

Figure 8-13. Playing a movie