Mac OS X to the Max: And DVD for All


This section contains some additional information for your DVD enjoyment.

DVD Player Keyboard Shortcuts

Table 25.2 contains keyboard shortcuts for DVD Player.

Table 25.2. Keyboard Shortcuts for DVD Player

Menu

Action

Keyboard Shortcut

 

Highlight DVD menu options

Up, down, left, right arrows

  

Tab; Shift-Tab

 

Select DVD menu options

Return

Controls

Scan Backwards

Shift--left arrow

Controls

Scan Forward

Shift--right arrow

Controls

Close/Open Control Drawer

-]

Controls

Closed Captioning, Turn On/Off

Option--T

Controls

Eject DVD

-E

Controls

Mute

Option--down arrow

Controls

New Bookmark

-=

Controls

New Video Clip

--

Controls

Play/Pause

Spacebar

Controls

Stop

-.

Controls

Timer, Cancel Timer

Option--.

Controls

Timer, Set Timer

-T

Controls

Volume Down

-down arrow

Controls

Volume Up

-up arrow

DVD Player

Preferences

-,

File

Get Disc Info

-I

Go

DVD Menu

-'

Go

Next Chapter

Right arrow

Go

Beginning of Disc

Shift--D

Go

Previous Chapter

Left arrow

Go

Switch To Finder

Shift--F

Video

Enter/Exit Full Screen

-0

Video

Half Size

-1

Video

Maximum Size

-3

Video

Normal Size

-2

Window

Navigator

Option--N

Window

Show/Hide Controller

Option--C


TIP

When scanning, each time you press the related key combination, the scan rate increases by one increment. If you use the Controller's scan buttons, the scan is performed at the speed selected on the Scan Rate command on the Controls menu.


Turning Your Mac into a Home Theater System

Unless you have an Apple Cinema Display (and even if you do have one), you might want to use your Mac to see movies at a larger size than what your monitor provides. After all, even with a 23" monitor, viewing movies on a Mac is not practical for more than one or two people.

The solution to this is to add a projector to your system. You can attach a projector to any Mac that has a video out port (which all modern Macs have). Then you can project your movies to almost-theater size for an even better movie experience. You can also project the Web to that size along with any other tasks you do on your Mac.

NOTE

A PowerBook or an iBook and a portable projector make an instant movie theater wherever you are.


And just as easily as you can project your movies, you can project the Web, your iMovies, slideshows, images, and anything else you work with.

Although projectors are fairly expensive, they are comparably priced to big-screen HDTV televisions. By adding an HDTV tuner, you can also project HDTV images with many projectors, so the projector can be used with various sources in addition to your Mac.

To add better sound to your Mac theater, you can route the sound output of your Mac to your sound system, or you can install a surround sound device to achieve digital sound.

If you have a PowerMac G5, you can take advantage of its digital audio output to listen to movies in full 5.1 digital surround sound.



Special Edition Using MAC OS X Tiger
Special Edition Using Mac OS X Tiger
ISBN: 0789733919
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 317
Authors: Brad Miser

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