General controls, Navigation controls, Player controls

General controls

When watching video clips, movies or slideshows using full-screen resolution, two pop-up control panels are shown when you move the pointer. They automatically disappear after several seconds. The Navigation Controls panel appears at the top and the Player Controls panel appears at the bottom of the screen.

Navigation controls

To return to the Arcade home page, click the Home button in the upper-left corner of the window. To go up one folder level while searching for content, click the arrow. The buttons in the upper right (minimize, maximize, close) have standard PC behaviors.

To quit Arcade, click the Close button in the upper right corner of the window.

Player controls

At the bottom of the window, the player controls — used for video, slideshows, movies and music — are shown. They provide standard playback controls (play, pause, stop, etc.) and volume controls (mute and volume up/down).

NOTE: When playing movies from optical discs, there are additional controls added to the right of the volume controls.

These are discussed in more detail in the Cinema of this guide.

Cinema

Play Movie:

Click Play Movie to watch a movie from your optical disc drive. Depending in the type of optical drive installed in your computer, you can play movies from Blu-Ray discs, standard DVDs and video CDs (VCDs) with the Cinema function of Acer Arcade Deluxe. This player has the features and controls of a typical DVD player.

When you insert a disk into the DVD drive, the movie begins playing automatically. To control the movie, the pop-up player control panel appears at the bottom of the window when you move the pointer.

If more than one optical drive contains a playable disc, you will be asked to select which one you would like to watch when you click Play Movie.

Alternatively, you can select content stored on your HDD by clicking Videos and navigating to the video clip you wish to view using a folder browser.

When viewing DVDs, the following special controls are added to the pop-up panel:

DVD Menu

Subtitles

Language

Snapshot

Angle

If you move your mouse/cursor while you’re watching a movie, a menu bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. This contains buttons to control the movie playback, select subtitles, adjust volume, select soundtrack language and set advanced features.

NOTE: Function availability will depend on what the optical disc being played supports.

Clicking the stop button will stop the movie playback, and return you to the Cinema main screen. At the bottom of the screen are buttons that allow you to resume the movie from the point it was stopped, restart the movie from the beginning or eject the disk.

Videos:

Click Videos to watch a video clip stored on your hard drive.

NOTE: The Video feature is designed to play back many different kinds of video formats. Refer to the Video help section for a full list of compatible formats. If you want to watch a DVD or VCD, use Cinema.

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