SC HO OL COM P UT E RS
DVD Playback
September 21, 2009
How to play DVDs on your school computer.
This document will help explain how to play
DVDs on your classroom or school
computer.
We now use a program called Media
Player Classic, as it is free, and seems to
work rather well. Better than VLC, which
was our previously preferred playback
program.
Also,
I
like
alliteration.
Either follow along with this helpful manual,
or find your own way using this icon on your
desktop:
For help with other or similar topics, try our
website Help & Support section under the
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The first step is to log into your computer and check for this is icon on your desktop:
Like this:
Fig.1
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Important Note:
If you do not have this icon, get your local school tech rep or admin member to send
an email to [email protected] with the request for installation of ‘Media Player
Classic’, along with your computer name or room number.
When you put a DVD in your computer, the autorun should normally pop-up, and one
would naturally assume (like on your computers at home) that you choose Windows
Media Player and hit OK. This is incorrect, hit Cancel.
Fig.2
Of course, if you put the DVD in before you logged in, or if this doesn’t
pop up… ignore this step!
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Next, double-click the media player classic icon (You remember that little guy, he was
in Fig.1), and the program should open and look like this:
Fig.3
Now click the file menu, as arrowed above, in Fig.3.
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Now click OPEN DVD from the file menu, and the video should start playing.
Fig.4
It should immediately play, and look something like the next picture.
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Fig.5
Double-click anywhere on the screen to go into FULL SCREEN mode, or click VIEW
FULLSCREEN. And you’re done.
Also: It should be noted that the above isn’t a real picture of “An Inconvenient Truth”, I PhotoShopped
that in there because the main screen for the DVD I used, “Memento”, was incomprehensible and
didn’t fit in well with whole ‘School’ theme I was going for. But I do enjoy Al Gore’s film, check it out if
you haven’t seen it. There’s a clip from Futurama in it that’s pretty swell. Anyway, thanks.
Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools
I.T. Department.