Playing Videos in Windows Media Center

The Pictures + Videos area in Windows Media Center makes it easy to play home video files that you created or video files that you downloaded from the Internet.

In Pictures + Videos you can:

￿Play videos that are stored anywhere on the hard disk drive.

￿Create a CD or DVD of your video files.

￿View your videos in full-screen mode or from an inset window in Windows Media Center.

￿View small thumbnail images and the titles of your video files.

Playing digital videos

After you organize the videos in the Videos folder or Shared Video folder in Windows Explorer, open Windows Media Center to watch them:

1Click the Windows Start Button on the taskbar, and then click Windows Media Center.

2Click Pictures + Videos.

3Click video library.

4Select the video folder that you want. 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.

NOTE: Use the mouse to select the up arrows and down arrows at the bottom of the window, to scroll to other pages of video files and folders.

5Click the video file. The video plays in full-screen mode. Use the mouse to resize the window if you want to watch the video while doing something else on the desktop.

6To exit full-screen mode and return to the previous window, press the Back button on the remote control or the Backspace key on the keyboard. The video continues to play in the inset window.

7When the video is finished, click Restart to replay the video, or click Done to close the file and return to the Videos area.

NOTE: You can maximize the media that is playing in the inset window by using the arrow buttons to select the inset window and then pressing OK on the remote control or Enter on the keyboard, or you can just click the inset window.

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