By default, DVD Player opens and begins to play the DVD. After a moment, the DVD is mounted on the machine. Insert the DVD into your Mac's DVD drive. To play and control a movie, use the following steps: If you have used a standard DVD player or VCR, the DVD Player controls will be easy to understand. The Control Drawer contains controls you aren't likely to use as often as those on the main Controller. You can also open or close the Drawer by dragging its resize handle. To open or close the Control Drawer, select Controls, Open Control Drawer or Controls, Hide Control Drawer. The Controller has additional controls in the Control Drawer, which you can close or open (see Figure 18.3).
The Controller does just what you think: It enables you to control DVD playback. To change the Controller back to the horizontal orientation, select Controls, Use Horizontal Controller. You can change the orientation to vertical by selecting Controls, Use Vertical Controller. It is in the horizontal mode by default (see Figure 18.2). It has two orientations, which are vertical and horizontal. The Controller window contains the controls you use to watch movies. In Full Screen mode, the Mac OS interface disappears and you can see only the DVD content and the DVD windows you choose to display. The DVD's content appears in this window you can choose various sizes for the window from Half Size to Full Screen. To capture DVD content in a screenshot, you need to use the excellent Snapz X Pro on a Mac equipped with an NVIDIA graphics card. If you try to capture screenshots of a DVD using the Mac's built-in tools, such as the Grab application, you won't be allowed to or all you will get is a black screen. With DVD Player, you can enjoy all the amazing content available on DVD, such as complete seasons of your favorite TV shows. This window provides information about the disc you are playing.įigure 18.1. This window provides the controls for movie playback. This is the window in which you watch the DVD content. The DVD Player application has the following three windows (see Figure 18.1): Mac OS X supports the playback of DVD movies with the DVD Player application. With a mobile Mac and your favorite DVD, time is never wasted. And waiting for just about anything will never be the same. If you travel a lot, you might find this reason enough to get your own mobile Mac. With a DVD-equipped Mac OS X mobile Mac, you can watch movies anytime, anywhere. Forget the crummy selection of movies usually shown on airplanes (when there even are movies) that you can't see or hear anyway. Watching DVD movies from a desktop Mac is okay, but DVD movies on the Mac really shine when you use a PowerBook or iBook.
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