. DVD Movies Using DVD Player, newly enhanced in Leopard, your Mac can play Hollywood DVDs as though it was born to do so. | . DVD Movies Using DVD Player newly enhanced in Leopard your Mac can play Hollywood DVDs as though it was 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 one that s just filled with files and unless you ve fiddled with your preference settings opens the DVD Player program Figure 11-9 . It can take awhile. If DVD Player doesn t start up 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 the CDs DVDs panel of System Preferences. . Playing a Movie Once DVD Player starts playing your movie you can use the remote control which is deconstructed in Figure 11-9. Or just use the keyboard controls By far the easiest way to start and stop Playback is to press the Space bar once to start again to pause again to start again. Press Shift- - to fast-forward press that combination repeatedly to cycle from twice to 4 8 16 or 32 times normal speed. Or just choose a speed from the Controls Scan Rate submenu. Similarly press Shift- - to scan backwards. Click Play or press the Space bar to resume normal playback. You can make the movie louder or quieter by repeatedly tapping - or - . That s a good keystroke to remember when you ve hidden the remote control itself. Figure 11-9. Top DVDs 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 Controls Use Vertical Controller. You can also do without this remote control altogether since all of its buttons have keyboard equivalents. Or if you prefer a clip n save cheat sheet of all the keystrokes here it is Function Keystroke Play Pause Space bar Fast-forward Shift- - Rewind Shift- - Skip back 5 seconds Option- - Skip forward 5 seconds Option- - Louder - .
