Titles and Chapters

What is a Title?

Titles are simply a collection of video clips or chapters. Generally there are multiple titles within a DVD.

When you click on a title, you’ll be able to see the chapters within that title.

What is a Chapter?

Just like novels, most DVDs are broken down into chapters. This makes it convenient for you to jump from chapter to chapter and quickly access different parts of the movie.

Let’s say you have to stop watching a DVD. The next time you watch it, you don’t want to start from the beginning, but rather you’d like to start watching somewhere around were you last left off. In the past, you had to use the Fast Forward feature to locate your place. But that was time consuming!

To make it easier, DVDs have been broken into multiple chapters. When trying to locate your place in a movie, you can skip from chapter to chapter to locate where you left off. For more fine-tuning, you can then use the Fast Forward button to locate your exact place.

This convenient feature saves you time!

Here’s how to navigate through the chapters:

Next Chapter
To jump to the next chapter, press the Next Chapter button. It will automatically jump to the next chapter. To get to the chapter after that, press the Next Chapter button again.
Previous Chapter
To jump to the previous chapter, press the Previous Chapter button. It will automatically jump to the last chapter. To get to the chapter before that, press the Previous Chapter button again.

Chapter Sidebar

When insert a DVD into your computer, PC Theater will scan the disk for relevant Chapter information. It will then display this information in a Chapter Sidebar located in the right hand side of PC Theater.

The Chapter Sidebar will list all of the chapters on your DVD. To view the Chapter Sidebar, click on the Chapter Sidebar button located in the bottom left hand corner of your screen.

To jump from chapter to chapter, simply click on the chapters. If you click on Chapter 8, Chapter 8 will begin to play. If you’d like to watch another chapter, simply click on that chapter number.

To show or hide the chapter sidebar, click on the Chapter Button located in the lower right hand corner.

Common Question:

When I start up PC Theater and I click on different titles and chapters, sometimes it won’t navigate to them. Am I doing something wrong?

No, you’re not doing anything wrong. Sometimes certain titles within a DVD are set to play automatically and are programmed so they can’t be skipped. Most often these titles appear at the beginning of the DVD and they usually consist of FBI Warnings and other information from the Movie Studio. They are typically set to play for a programmed amount of time (such as 30 seconds). Because these items are hard programmed into the DVD, PC Theater cannot bypass them and start playing other segments. Once the set time amount has passed, PC Theater will begin working normally and you can navigate through the entire DVD.