Using My Videos; Organizing Your Videos; Playing Digital Videos - Dell Media Center User Manual

Using My Videos

Media Center allows you to organize and play videos on your computer.

Organizing Your Videos

When you attach a digital video camera to your computer, Windows asks how you want to capture
the video. Various software programs allow you to capture and edit video files. Most programs
automatically save the file to the My Videos folder in Windows Explorer. If not, you must move
your videos into the My Videos or Shared Video folder in Windows Explorer in order to play them
in Media Center. When you have placed all your videos into the My Videos or Shared Video folder,
you can rename, add, delete, and organize them into folders.
To organize and store your videos in the My Videos folder in Windows Explorer:
Click the Start button and click My Documents.
1
Double-click the My Videos folder.
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If you want to share your videos with others, place them in the Shared Video folder. To organize
and store your videos in the Shared Video folder in Windows Explorer:
Click the Start button and click My Documents.
1
Under Other Places, click Shared Documents.
2
Double-click the Shared Video folder.
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Playing Digital Videos

Using the Mouse and Keyboard
In the Media Center Start Menu window, click
1
My Videos.
The right side of the window displays small
images of your video files and folder icons, if you
organized your videos into folders.
Click an image to play the video. The selected
2
video plays in full-screen mode, or the folder
opens displaying a list of video files.
If you want to play the video in the smaller
window, click the back button.
To view additional videos not displayed in the
3
window, click
on your keyboard to scroll to other pages of video
files and folders.
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Other Features
in the window or press
Using the Remote Control
Press the MY VIDEOS button.
1
The right side of the window displays small
images of your video files and folder icons, if you
organized your videos into folders.
Press to highlight an image and press OK
2
to play the video. The selected video plays in full-
screen mode, or the folder opens displaying a list
of video files.
If you want to play the video in the smaller
window, press the BACK button.
To view additional videos not displayed in the
3
window, press
video files and folders.
to scroll to other pages of