Pioneer DV-48AV Getting started Playing discs, Press  OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray

04Getting started

Playing discs

The basic playback controls for playing DVD, CD, SACD, Video CD, DivX video/WMV and MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC discs are covered here. Further functions are detailed in the next chapter.

For details on playing JPEG picture discs, see Viewing a JPEG slideshow on page 28.

Important

•Throughout this manual, the term ‘DVD’ means DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and DVD-R/-RW. If a function is specific to a particular kind of DVD disc, it is specified.

STANDBY/ON OPEN/CLOSE

 

ENTER

ENTER

 PLAY 

PAUSE STOP

1If the player isn’t already on, press  STANDBY/ON to switch it on.

If you’re playing a DVD, disc containing DivX video/WMV files or Video CD, also turn on your TV and make sure that it is set to the correct video input.

2Press  OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.

3 Load a disc.

Load a disc with the label side facing up, using the disc tray guide to align the disc (if you’re loading a double-sided DVD disc, load it with the side you want to play face down).

4 Press  (play) to start playback.

If you’re playing a DVD or Video CD, an on- screen menu may appear. See DVD-Video and DivX disc menus on page 24 and Video CD PBC menus on page 25 for more on how to navigate these.

•If you’re playing a containing DivX video/ WMV files or MP3/WMA/MPEG-4 AAC audio files, it may take a few seconds before playback starts, etc. This is normal.

•Please see Disc/content format playback compatibility on page 8 if you want to play a DualDisc (DVD/CD hybrid disc).

Note

•You may find with some DVD discs that some playback controls don’t work in certain parts of the disc. This is not a malfunction.

•If a disc contains a mixture of movie (DivX video/WMV) and other media file types (MP3, for example), first select whether to play the movie files (DivX/WMV)or the other media file types (MP3/WMA/MPEG- 4 AAC/JPEG) from the on-screen display.

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