Play a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center
In Windows Media Center, you can play audio CDs and DVD movies. You can also play data CDs and DVDs (discs that contain digital media files, such as MP3, WMV, and JPEG files).
Playing CDs and DVDs in Media Center is best experienced using a Media Center remote control. Make sure that the type of Media Center remote control you use is compatible with your computer.
Play a DVD in Media Center
To understand how your computer handles multimedia content when a CD or DVD is inserted in the computer, see Change AutoPlay settings.
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Click the
Start button
, click
All Programs, and then click
Windows Media Center.
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If Media Center is not in full-screen mode, click the
Maximize button
.
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Insert the DVD into a DVD drive on your computer.
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If the main DVD title menu doesn't appear automatically, on the Media Center start screen, scroll to Movies, and then click Play DVD.
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Click the appropriate button (this will usually be a Play button) on the DVD menu to play the DVD.
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While your DVD is playing, you can move the mouse to make the playback controls appear. Here are some of the things you can do with these controls:
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Click the
Skip Forward button
to skip to the next chapter on the DVD.
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Click the
Skip Backward button
to go back to the previous chapter on the DVD.
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Click the
Pause button
, and then click the
Fast Forward button once to watch the DVD in slow motion. (Click the
Fast Forward button again to watch the DVD in fast motion.)
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Click the
Stop button
to stop playing the DVD.
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On the Windows Media Center start screen, scroll to Tasks, click Settings, and then click DVD.
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Do one of the following:
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To change the default language settings, click Language.
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To change the basic audio settings, click Audio.
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To change when subtitles appear, click Subtitle.
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To change how some buttons on a Media Center remote control behave, click Remote Control Options.
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Click the
Start button
, click
All Programs, and then click
Windows Media Center.
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If Media Center is not in full-screen mode, click the
Maximize button
.
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Insert an audio CD into the CD drive on your computer.
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If the CD doesn't start playing automatically, on the Windows Media Center start screen, scroll to Music, click Music library, click Albums, click the CD you inserted, and then click Play album.
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Here are some of the things you can do while your CD is playing:
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Move the mouse to make the playback controls appear, and then click the
Skip Forward button
to play the next track on the CD.
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Move the mouse to make the playback controls appear, and then click the
Skip Backward button
to go to the beginning of the track that's currently playing.
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Click View Song List to view all the tracks on the CD.
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Click Visualize to watch a visualization while the music plays.
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Click Play Pictures to start a slide show of your pictures along with the music.
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Click Shuffle to play the tracks on the CD in a random order.
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Click Repeat to play the CD over and over again.
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Move the mouse to make the playback controls appear, and then click the
Stop button
to stop playing the CD.
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Click the
Start button
, click
All Programs, and then click
Windows Media Center.
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If Media Center is not in full-screen mode, click the
Maximize button
.
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Do one of the following:
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Under What do you want to do?, click Play music.
Notes
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The Blu‑ray Disc format is not supported in Media Center. To play a Blu‑ray Disc, you need to use a non-Microsoft program that supports Blu‑ray playback and a device capable of reading Blu‑ray Discs.
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When playing data CDs and DVDs in Media Center, make sure that the audio or video file types are supported. To see which file types will work, see File types supported by Windows Media Center.
