Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

DVD Player

DVD Player enables you to play DVD-Video on your Macintosh.

Tip

To use DVD Player, your Macintosh must have a DVD-ROM drive or SuperDrive. For that reason, the Mac OS X installer only installs DVD Player on computers that have one of these drives. If you can't find DVD Player in your Applications folder, chances are that your computer can't play DVD-Video anyway.

To launch DVD Player

Insert a DVD-Video into your computer. DVD Player should launch and do one of two things:

Display a black Viewer window with a floating Controller palette (Figure 56 ).

Figure 56. DVD Player either starts with a blank Viewer window and Controller palette…

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Immediately begin DVD play (Figure 57 ).

Figure 57. …or begins playing the DVD-Video. (This is the first DVD I created with iDVD. It didn't get any awards.)

If DVD Player does not launch at all, then:

Double-click the DVD Player icon in the Applications folder (Figure 1 ).

Or

Tip

If a Drive Region Code dialog appears the first time you play a DVD-Video, click the Set Drive Region button to set DVD Player's region to match that of the disc you inserted. Then click OK to dismiss the confirmation dialog that appears.

To display the Controller

Move the mouse while the DVD is playing.

Or

Choose Window > Show Viewer (the menu appears, if necessary, when you point to it), or press .

The Controller appears (Figure 58a or 58b ).

Tips

You can change the appearance of the Controller from horizontal (Figure 58a ) to vertical (Figure 58b ) by choosing an option from the Controller Type submenu under the Controls menu (Figure 59 ).

Figure 59. The Controls menu includes commands for controlling DVD play.

To display additional DVD controls on the Controller, double-click the pair of tiny lines on the right (Figure 58a ) or bottom (Figure 58b ) of the Controller.

Figure 60 shows a horizontal Controller expanded to show these controls.

Figure 60. A horizontal Controller, expanded to show additional control buttons. Point to a button to learn its name.

To control DVD play

Click buttons on the Controller (Figure 58a, 58b , or 60 ).

Or

Choose a command from the Controls menu (Figure 61 ).

Tip

The Pause button on the Controller (Figures 58a and

58b ) and the Pause command on the Controls menu (Figure 59 ) change into a Play button and a Play command when a DVD is not playing.

To resize the Viewer window

Choose an option from the Video window (