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Playing DVD-Video Discs
All DVD players and drives will read audio CDs and
CD-ROMs, and play music from Enhanced CDs (CD Plus,
CD Extra).
To play DVD discs
Place a DVD disc in your DVD drive, then click the Play DVD
button in the File Open dialog. If you experience problems see
DVD problems on page 121.
It is the nature of the DVD format that some commands and
options are allowed at some times, and not allowed at others.
The way the disc was authored determines this, so it can vary
from one disc to another. The following examples illustrate
some of these situations.
Audio selection disabled. Some DVD discs that include
multiple languages forbid changing audio tracks during
playback, which disables the Audio channel button. In these
cases, the disc provides an audio language menu where you can
select the audio track. There may be similar situations for
Subtitle selection (see Setting up subtitles on page 85 or
Viewing angle selection (see Selecting viewing angle on
page 87).
1 Click the Menu button in the control panel, then click
the Root menu (or the Language menu, if available).
2 From the Root menu's Languages option, select the
language.
Time search disabled. Some DVD discs disable searching by
time; searching randomly through the disc is prohibited, and
skip forward, skip back, and seek slider buttons are disabled.
Usually, the next program and previous program buttons
continue to function. The Play specific buttons will work, but
you can only select title and chapter (not time).
Stop disabled. The “FBI warning” often disables the Stop
button until the warning has played. The Skip forward and Next
program buttons have no effect until the warning is complete.