DVD Functions

DVDs provide many additional functions compared to normal movies. Most important of them are interactive menus, multiple audio and subpicture tracks, multiple camera angles, chapters.

Most of the functions are controlled from the DVD Toolbar and OSD Main menu. Subpictures and audio streams can be selected in Stream selector. Previous / next chapters can be selected with Previous / Next track in Play, Seeking, Speed, where the playing speed can also be controlled.

Chapter and title can be selected in the Playlist window. The titles are displayed in the root of the tree, every title item has subitems representing the chapters that are defined for that title.

Note: The subtitles are stored as streams of bitmaps on the DVD (not text) and thus you can not edit them in SP. They can be ripped from the DVD and converted to text using OCR methods. An excellent program called SubRip can do this job.

Change disc

This function can be used on computers with multiple DVD drives. When you have a two-disc movie, put one disc in one drive and the second disc in the second drive. When the first part of the movie finishes, simply press this button and the DVD in the second drive will be automatically opened. When there is no DVD currently opened, this function opened the DVD in the first drive. When the DVD in the second drive is playing, the disc from the first drive is opened. The drives can be configured in Settings.

Quick language

This function automatically selects pre-configured audio and subpicture stream so there is no need to select them from the DVD menus. Useful with two disc DVDs which have a starting selection of language but this selects national dubbing and you want to have original sound with subtitles - this would involve using the menus (and that may be unwanted interruption in the middle of two-disc movie) but with Quick language it's a matter of a single click / key press.