Playing Digital Videos in Media Center

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■Use the mouse to select the Up arrow and Down arrow at the bottom of the window to scroll to other pages of video files and folders.

■You can maximize the media playing in the inset window by using the arrow buttons to select the inset window and then pressing OK on the remote control.

After you organize your videos in the My Videos or Shared Video folder in Windows Explorer, open Media Center to watch your videos.

1

Press the Media Center Start button

on

 

the remote control.

 

2

Select My Videos.

 

3

Select the video folder you want, and

 

 

then press OK. The video folder opens,

 

 

displaying a list of video files. You may need

 

to use the scroll arrows at the bottom of the

 

window to display all videos.

 

4

Select the video file, and press OK again.

 

The video plays in full-screen mode. Use the

 

mouse to resize the window if you want to

 

watch your video while doing something

 

 

else on your desktop.

 

5

To exit full-screen mode and return to the

 

 

previous window, press Back on the remote

control. Your video continues to play in the inset window.

6 When the video is finished, select Restart, and then press OK to replay the video, or select Done to close the file and return to the My Videos window.

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For more information about supported video file types, refer to Media Center Help menu.

Using Supported Video File Types

You can view the following types of video files in Media Center. Other file types are supported if your PC has the correct software installed.

File extension

File type

.avi

Video file

 

 

.mpeg, .mpg,

Movie file

.mpe, .m1v,

 

.mp2, .mpv2

 

.wm, .asf

Windows Media file

.wmv

Windows Media A/V file

 

 

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