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Accessing Disc Menus in PowerDVD

When playing discs with CyberLink PowerDVD you can access the disc menus in a variety of ways. Whether it is the title, root, chapter, or audio menu, you can easily access them from anywhere within the program during playback.

CyberLink PowerDVD also provides access to pop-up menus for Blu-ray Discs*, as well as for menus on DVD-VR discs.

Note: * this feature is not available in some editions of CyberLink PowerDVD 22.

Menus on Commercial Discs

During the playback of most commercial discs, you can access the Title Menu, Root Menu (for special features), Subtitles Menu, Audio Menu, Angle Menu, or the Chapter Menu from various locations.

Note: some disc titles will not allow you to select menus other than the Root Menu. Users will need to access the settings from within the Root Menu if this is the case.

To access these menu items:

click on in the playback controls during DVD playback and then select either Title Menu or Root Menu.

click on in the playback controls during playback and then choose Select Menu. The available disc menus are dependent on how the disc was authored.

right-click on the media window during playback to access the express menu, and then choose Select Menu.

Note: when you enter the disc menu during disc playback and you are done selecting the desired options, right-click on the media window and then select Resume to return to the point where you left off. Note that this resume from menu function is not available if you stopped playback.

Pop-up Menu for Blu-ray Discs

Most Blu-ray Disc* titles have a pop-up menu that provides quick access to scene selection and other features during playback.

Note: * this feature is not available in some editions of CyberLink PowerDVD 22.

If there is a pop-up menu available for the Blu-ray Disc title you are watching, you can access it by doing one of the following:

during playback, click the button on the playback controls.

during playback, press the M key on your keyboard.

Blu-ray Disc Mouse Solution

Some Blu-ray Disc titles do not allow you to use a mouse to navigate through the pop-up menu. If this is the case when you are playing a Blu-ray Disc in CyberLink PowerDVD, click and then select during disc playback to open the More Functions dialog, and then use the navigation controls to navigate through the pop-up menu.

Using the Menus in DVD-VR Format

You can use the Program Set Viewer to access and navigate the menus for discs in the DVD-VR video format.

1.Click on the playback controls.

2.Select Menu > Program Set Viewer to visually view the first frame of every title/chapter.

3.Click on the thumbnail that represents the title/chapter in order to begin playback or click Close to exit the viewer.

Note: if playlists are available, they are available for selection here too.