User`s guide

DVD 109

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, and then click the Play

DVD button in the File Open dialog. If you experience

problems see DVD Problems on page 210.

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 page 110) or Viewing angle selection

(see page 112).

1 Click the Menu button in the control panel, and 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.

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.